cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303511
title: Estimation of a function for the production of compost: the european case

description: Abstract: This paper aims to estimate a compost production function for 31 countries in Europe using the data panel methodology. The motivation of the document was based on the lag that exists in the economic literature, on issues related to the treatment of solid waste and its possible reintegration into the market. It was found that the production function that best fits is translogarithmic. When calculating Allen's elasticities of substitution, it was found that capital is complementary to the other factors of production, represented by the rate of installation of new treatment plants,. The opposite occurred with the work and the municipal waste generated, being substitutes for the group of countries analyzed.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303508
title: The unequal allocation of PRONAF resources: which factors determine the intensity of the program across Brazil?

description: Abstract The family farming sector in Brazil is an important player in the country’s economy, especially in poor rural areas., The government has created the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF) to stimulate the development of family farming in Brazil. It a credit program that offers loans at a subsidized interest rate. Previous studies have shown that wealthier farmers and more developed regions have more access to subsidized credit. Due to this apparently unequal allocation of PRONAF resources, the study aims to analyze, through econometric regressions and interviews with specialists, the underlying determinants for the unequal credit allocation across the municipalities in Brazil. Results indicate that wealth and knowledge of farmers are significant determinants of loan size, whereas municipalities that represent a high risk have received significantly fewer resources from PRONAF per household head. Thereby, we can conclude that PRONAF’s operations are not fulfilling their pro-poor objectives of targeting poor farmers and municipalities. Progress in infrastructure and institutions to reduce risks, enhancement of farmers’ qualifications and organization, better access to markets and agroindustry, and improvements in rural extension services are found to be essential to increasing the access to PRONAF’s credit.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303507
title: Spatial clusters of “agriculturalization” in the rural area of some brazilian states

description: Abstract: At least, during the last four decades, three phenomena have been running in Brazil´s countryside: decreasing population, reducing workforce and increasing creation of non-agricultural jobs. However, these phenomena do not take place evenly throughout the country, in order that some areas are more dedicated to agriculture than others are. In this context, this work aims to propose and estimate, using the factorial analysis, an indicator to measure the intensity of agriculture (called “agriculturalization” index). It will allow to analyze its spatial distribution and potentially to find out some agricultural concentration. Initially, five Brazilian states are taken into consideration, considering their physical proximity, their agriculture similarity and their importance for Brazil’s agriculture. These states are Paraná, São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso and Goiás, considering years of 2000 and 2010. It was found out the existence of High-High cluster inside and at the boundary of the five analyzed states. And it is justified by the existence of agro-food industries and the occurrence of spillover effects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303506
title: Types of regional knowledge protected by institutions under the Canastra designation of origin (MG)

description: Abstract: This work aims to discuss the types of knowledge in the region under the Canastra designation of origin (DO) after the insertion of knowledge of health legislation and of geographical indication (GI). As a specific objective, it seeks to understand how the relations of trust among institutions in the region have been affected by GI. The qualitative research method of this work involved content analysis of documents and interviews with the help of the software Atlas.Ti. The main results are: parts of the knowledge of the legislation were incorporated into the production process of the Artisanal Cheese Minas Artisanal through the Interpretative Dossier of the Brazilian National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute and the Regulation of Use of IO. This knowledge has been widely disseminated by the Minas Gerais Institute of Agriculture and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply . The knowledge of GI has been disseminated mainly among the producers by the Canastra Cheese Producers Association. It is possible to conclude that the three types of knowledge found; protected, exogenous and tacit, have been strongly influenced by the insertion of the legislation and weakly influenced by knowledge of the GI. Knowledge of legislation has altered the relationship of trust between endogenous and exogenous institutions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303505
title: The city seen by the inhabitants of the countryside of Araponga/MG: na analysis of social representations through Alceste software

description: Abstract: The relationship between the countryside and the city has been changing markedly, especially since the last two decades of the 20th century. The present article aimed to analyze how the rural population of a small coffee - growing municipality located in the Zona da Mata, Minas Gerais, manifested through its representations of “countryside” and “city” the approximations and differences about the way of life in both spaces. This study had a cross-sectional character and was carried out through the application of a semi-structured questionnaire, with a representative sample of the population, composed by 94 rural households. In the application of the questionnaire, it was used the technique of mixing questions that stimulated quick and spontaneous responses, with others of a more reflective nature. Based on the answers obtained, the corpus was prepared for the quantitative analysis of textual data, in Alceste software. The results concerning the spontaneous and reflexive representations that the rural ones expressed about the “city” and the “countryside” revealed a social vision of the world marked by the perspective of belonging to the city dynamics, combined with the rurality marks constituting his identity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303502
title: Competitiveness and effect of policy measures in production systems with cocoa and rubber tree

description: Abstract: The present work analyzed the competitiveness and efficiency of the consortium production system of the cocoa with the rubber tree, in the southern Bahia, through the policies analysis matrix method developed by Monke and Pearson. PAM indicators were measured and grouped into four categories: profitability analysis; efficiency analysis; protection analysis; and net policies transfers. The obtained results allow affirming that the intercropping of cocoa crops with the rubber tree is a lucrative and competitive activity, from a private and social point of view. However, producers are penalized by policies that affect the product and inputs. Moreover, it was observed that indicators’ behavior are conditioned to cocoa and natural rubber prices fluctuations.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303501
title: Attitudes and perceptions of environmental managers in relation to climate change in the Coastal Region of the State of São Paulo, Brazil

description: Abstract: Previous studies have shown that the coastal zone of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, is considered highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. This scenario is complicated by the presence of nationally relevant economic activities, large population and legally protected ecosystems. The present study aims to analyze perceptions, knowledge and attitudes of environmental managers about the effects of climate change on coastal regions, as well as to evaluate the type of information that is used (or planned to use) in the construction of effective adaption plans. This research was carried out through the application of a survey using the online platform SurveyGizmo. The results document growing levels of preoccupation among environmental managers about the impacts of climatic changes; at the same time, they make evident the absence in effective activity in the creation of public policy addressed to the mitigation or adaptation to the expected impacts.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303499
title: Family farming, food processing and advances and setbacks in the regulation of traditional and artisanal foods

description: Abstract: In Brazil, the 1990s represent a milestone in public policies for family farming. Among these policies, that one’s focused on stimulating food agroindustrialization are especially relevant because encouraged numerous rural families to process and commercialize their products. As a consequence, in the last decades, the number of family-farm agroindustries, formal or informal, has grown significantly. However, in spite of the public incentive to agroindustrialization, these foods are mostly processed and commercialized informally due, mainly, to the criteria set by the health regulations. Although in recent years positive changes can be noticed in relation to the legalization of family-farm agroindustries, there are remaining gaps and important challenges that have contributed to the expressive number of food processing in an informal way. In this context, the aim of this paper is to broaden the debate on the characteristics and definitions associated with food processing within the family farm and to analyze some Brazilian health regulations related to these products. Therefore, in addition to this contextualization, this paper analyzes health regulations that affect or influence food process activities, seeking to contemplate not only different values and qualities in dispute but also possibilities to overcome gaps and challenges in relation to the artisanal and traditional agrifood products.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303497
title: Toma de decisiones y gestión productiva en el sector agropecuario del Noreste de La Pampa (Argentina)

description: Resumen: El objetivo del presente trabajo es identificar, caracterizar, analizar y definir diferentes modelos de toma de decisiones en el sector agropecuario del noreste de la provincia de La Pampa (Argentina). Para ello, a través de una encuesta semiestructurada, se generó información sobre las características productivas y socio-familiares de los productores agropecuarios de la región, así como también de los procesos de toma de decisiones que implementan, tanto sobre los aspectos técnicos-productivos como económicos-financieros, en sus explotaciones agropecuarias. Luego, a partir de considerar un amplio marco conceptual, se realizó un cruzamiento y análisis de las variables que permitieron identificar diferentes modelos de toma de decisiones. Estos modelos son: “innovador en red”; “familiar-tradicional”; “familiar-empresarial” y “directivo-administrativo”.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303496
title: Pronaf Jovem: the disjunctions between the ideal and the real

description: Abstract: This article analyzes the limits of Pronaf Jovem in the social construction of a successor rural youth in family farming from counterpoints between normative principles and experiences lived by young rural people. The research data were obtained by combining documentary research and case study. The case study was carried out in municipalities of the Central Region of Rio Grande do Sul, it was produced qualitative and quantitative data. Pronaf Jovem idealizes the construction of an autonomous, pluriactive rural youth, integrated in institutions of rural development and successor in family farming. In this study, rural youth could not access rural credit through Pronaf Jovem. They invest in differentiated strategies for personal emancipation, which are rarely directed towards projects of hereditary succession in family farming.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303495
title: Through rough seas: the political mediation of the Pastoral Council of Fishermen (1968-2018)

description: Abstract: This paper focuses on the work of the Pastoral Council of Fishermen (PCF), an important mediator of artisanal fishing in Brazil. The objectives are: (a) understand the political scenery of fishing before the rise of this Pastoral and (b) analyse strategies and forms of action developed by this political mediator with the artisanal fishermen. The methodological procedures were based on interviews with leaders and former leaders of the PCF, documents, newspaper sources and direct observation. We conclude that the paths built by the struggles of fishing communities keep - in the advisory action of the PCF - a prominent role, a decisive influence since its appearance.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303490
title: International trade in GMOs: have markets paid premiums on Brazilian soybeans?

description: Abstract: The introduction of GMO technology into global market chains and the rejection by consumers in some markets have led to the reorganization of soybean trades. Brazil has adopted the technology later than other countries and specialized in supplying non-GMO soybean between 1996 and 2005. On the other hand, the United States and Argentina, which adopted the technology in 1996, exported to countries with less social aversion to the GM-technology. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between changes in global market chains (price, source and destination and market shares) and GMO technology adoption, focusing on evidences for price premiums for non-GM soybeans produced in Brazil, by the analysis of the trade unit values (TUV). In order to do so, we employ multivariate methods (Principal Components and Hierarchical Cluster analyses) and estimate a Random Effect model based on a bilateral trade dataset covering the years from 1986 to 2010. Results show that GM-technology adoption significantly changed trade patterns. However, premiums were paid for Brazilian soybean only in niche markets, where the market share is lower.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303489
title: A Influência do Preço dos Hortifrutícolas no IPCA: uma análise por meio da curva de Phillips

description: Abstract: Supply shocks have frequently been related to the behavior of inflation. Those shocks are in general measured by changes in commodity prices (minerals, oil, agricultural commodities, etc.). The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of supply shocks caused by changes in prices of horticultural products (perishable with short cycles) exert in the Brazilian inflation. Although not quite studied academically, this process has popularly been associated with important variations on the IPCA index. To deal with this process, a Phillips curve, following New Keynesians principles, based on the semi structural model of small size by the Brazilian Central Bank and the estimation method used was Auto-regression with Vector Error Correction (VEC) in its structural version. The results show that there is evidence that the prices of horticultural products may have a considerable participation in the IPCA and inflation expectations variations and their shocks produce effects that persist for several months in the trajectory of these two variables.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303487
title: Criação e Destruição de Empregos no Setor Primário no Brasil entre 2000 e 2009

description: Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze the employment variation in primary sector between the years 2000-2009 in Brazil. We used the methodology of input-output through the structural decomposition of the employment variation divided into effects of employment intensity, technology, demand structure, demand growth and total net variation. The main results showed that between the periods studied, there was a decrease of 773 thousand jobs in the sector of Agriculture and Extraction. We also find that the Agriculture, Forestry and Lumbering, and Livestock and Fishing sectors were the responsible for the employment decrease through the intensity effect. Looking at the total job variation, we found out that a significant amount of jobs were created in the Oil and Natural Gas and Iron sectors. Despite of that, and mostly because these sectors have a minor participation in the Brazilian primary sector, this employment increase was not enough to counterbalance the job decrease in the other sectors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303483
title: Percepção dos Consumidores Relativamente à Carne de Bovino: cenários de escolha a partir de grupos de discussão

description: In developed economies, food safety, animal welfare and the environment have become relevant consumers' concerns. We conducted several focus groups in two Portuguese cities, Lisboa and Porto, in order to get participants perceptions and concerns for these attributes, which are essentially credence attributes. This knowledge is critical for the subsequent application of stated preference methods. It was also possible to estimate, based on exercises of selection among different meats, and through a logit model, price ranges that could be used in the definition of scenarios for choice experiments (stated preference method).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303482
title: The Livestock Roles in the Wellbeing of Rural Communities of Timor-Leste

description: The livestock species play very important economic and socio-cultural roles for the wellbeing of rural households, such as food supply, source of income, asset saving, source of employment, soil fertility, livelihoods, transport, agricultural traction, agricultural diversification and sustainable agricultural production. The aim of this work was to identify and characterize the different roles that livestock and livestock species play in rural communities of Timor-Leste, highlighting the importance of animal production for the wellbeing and rural development, and relate the functions performed by livestock production with economic, social and cultural attributes of the communities. The data used in this study were collected in 2011 through a questionnaire survey in three rural communities in the district of Bobonaro, namely in a mountain area, an irrigation plain and a coastal zone, and were complemented with secondary data. Livestock production in Timor-Leste is predominantly familiar being chickens, pigs, goats, cattle, horses, buffaloes and sheep the main species. Beyond the economic function, each livestock species also performs social and cultural functions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303481
title: Características das Famílias, Estruturação da Produção e Estratégias de Comercialização em um Assentamento de Reforma Agrária

description: Abstract: The structure of farms is associated with family characteristics and to sale strategy, for a given expectation of income generation and risk exposure. To understand this association, seven cases of settled families were studied in a land reform settlement in Araraquara-SP, Brazil, a region dominated by sugarcane and citrus plantations. The indicators were total aggregated value, the aggregated value per worker, family structure and dynamics and farm-work organization. The cases comprised two farms integrated with agroindustry (sugarcane and chicken, milk and chicken), three vegetable producers (selling in wholesale, semi-wholesale and farmers' market), a family that produced exclusively for household consumption and a family without economic production. Families associated with agroindustry had the highest aggregated values, but had to make greater investments, which increased risk exposure. The world financial crisis of 2008 broke the agroindustries and both integrated properties. Vegetable producers had lower aggregated values than farms integrated with agroindustry, but their investments needs were accordingly lower. The choice for vegetable sale route was associated with family composition and with technologic and market knowledge present in the family.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303480
title: Aplicação da Metodologia Multicritério de Apoio à Decisão no Relacionamento Interorganizacional na Cadeia da Avicultura de Corte

description: Abstract: The poultry production is an important source of protein for human consumption. Understanding the inter-relationship in this environment is essential to reduce operating and transaction costs. This work aims to build a multi-criteria evaluation model of the relationship between an agribusiness and its integrated producers in the city of Seara, Santa Catarina, evaluating the possible effects on the competitiveness of the supply chain. We conducted a case study with theoretical approach to supply chain management, complemented by microanalytical approach of competitive strategies. It conducted quantitative and qualitative research and used the multi-criteria analysis methodology to support constructivist decision (MCDA-C) for the construction and interpretation of the model. We used instrument and carried out interviews with farmers, agribusiness representatives and poultry specialists. The agents defined production cost, remuneration, factors of production, investment risk, information flow and institutional environment as the fundamental points of view (FPV) model. It was found with the application of the model in three classes of farmers that FPV´s remuneration, investment risk, downstream flow of information supply chain and production costs, had greater impact on the inter-relationships to achieve competitiveness in chain.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303478
title: Impactes do Preço da Água na Agricultura no Perímetro Irrigado do Vale de Caxito,

description: Abstract: Increased pressure on water resources has led many countries to reconsider the mechanisms used in the induction of efficient water use, especially for irrigated agriculture, a major consumer of water. Establishing the correct price of water is one of the mechanisms for more efficient allocation of water. This paper aims to analyze the economic, social and environmental impacts of water price policies. The methodology used is the linear programming, applied to the Irrigated Valley Caxito, in Bengo Province, 45 kilometers from Luanda, which has the river Dande as its source. Three scenarios concerning water price policies were tested: simple volumetric rate, variable volumetric rate and flat rate per surface. The main findings show that from the point of view of the efficient use of water in agriculture, the best results are obtained with variable volumetric rate; from the social point of view, the simple volumetric rate has the best results; the volume variable rate method proved to be the most penalizing, quickly reducing the area of most water consuming cultures, being the method in which the environmental objectives would be more readily achieved. Either methods bring negative aspects in relation to the reduction of total gross margin.