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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303550
title: Effects of rural microcredit on agricultural production: evidence from the Agroamigo program

description: Abstract: This study aims to evaluate the effect of rural microcredit on the value of agricultural production in the Northeastern Brazilian municipalities served by the Agroamigo Program, considering the amount of loans granted and the time of exposure to benefits. Therefore, it was used the differences in differences (DD) method with control for fixed effect for an annual panel of 1,791 municipalities in the region from 2003 to 2015, using administrative data from the Program, social indicators of the Annual Report of Social Information (RAIS), rainfall data from the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), and demographic, economic and agricultural production indicators of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The main results of the research show that Agroamigo's loan volume had a positive effect on livestock production, and this effect was potentiated for those municipalities with more than seven years of exposure to the Program. However, no statistically significant effects were found on agricultural activity. Finally, compared to the total amounts of microcredit and the benefits generated, measured only in terms of livestock production, it was identified that the program presented a return rate of 52% the aggregate from 2005 to 2015.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303549
title: The behavior of the portuguese organic wine consumers

description: Abstract: Although, in recent years, organic wine has evolved positively in production and consumption due to increased concern and environmental awareness and health, it remains an economic activity in Portugal with a very small market compared to other EU countries and with other organic products of agri-food origin. Hence, the purpose of this study was to analyze consumer behavior in relation to organic wine, testing variables such as the perception of the attributes of organic wine, lifestyle and health awareness and price sensitivity to understand the link between the attitude and the intention to buy, consume and recommend a biological wine. It was adopted the conclusive and descriptive methodology, with survey of quantitative data from an online questionnaire available for three months (March-May 2019), allowed to explain the importance of the perception of the attributes. Of organic wine, attitudes and health awareness in the willingness to buy, consume and recommend an organic wine.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303547
title: Garrano as a sustainability factor of territories from natural network 2000

description: Abstract: The evolution of the rural population and livestock of some Portuguese native breeds has shown worrying levels of regression, with environmental and ecological consequences, in the management and planning of the territory and its sustainability, namely regarding the socio-economic dimension and territorial cohesion itself. Based on interviews with breeders, companies, and associations dedicated to the breeding and protection of the Garrano horse breed, used for various purposes, this paper aims to identify the benefits of adopting a production system that includes Garrano, highlighting also its main weaknesses. The approach will be developed taking into account the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability. The results show the important role of these animals, not only as a living genetic heritage but also in terms of the protection of forests against fires, regarding the control of fuel biomass. However, a concerted strategy will need to be devised to enhance its contribution to the economy of farms or enterprises. This should be reflected in the increase of the welfare of the population, the stabilization of the animal herd, and the sustainability of the territory.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303545
title: The value of forest recreation in Azorean public parks

description: Abstract: This study assesses the aggregated value of demand for forest recreation in the Azores using a regional travel cost model. Previous assessments of total economic value (TEV) of the Portuguese forest by Mendes (2005) and INCF (2006) consider both market services and non-market services. Non-timber benefits (NTB) such as recreation, carbon sequestration, protection of soil, and biodiversity were valued using value transfer methodologies. Forest recreation accounts for 0.65% of TEV using a unit transfer value of 2.75 Euros/per visit estimated by Loureiro and Albiac (1996). The present primary study assesses the value of forest recreation in the Azorean islands instead of a single site approach. A count data travel-cost model, taking into account characteristics of data from on-site face-to-face interviews, is used instead of contingent valuation. This study uses data from a survey of visitors to public forest parks in São Miguel, Terceira, and Pico. Visits to public forest parks are a significant component of forest recreation, attracting more than 18% of residents with an average of five trips per year. The typical visitant is male, 38 years of age, and has secondary education. Those interviewed engage in physical activities, walking and running, as well as picnics, an opportunity to meet friends and family during the summer. The profile of this summer visitors changes to a more hard engagement in running and walking activities during autumn and spring. 33% of visitors are fully satisfied with their visiting experience and the quality of public forest parks. The value of a daily visit is 13.66 euros, and the total economic value exceeds 3 million euros in all Azorean parks for 275 thousand visitors. A conservative assessment of the benefit of forest recreation is higher than the total market value of wood production.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303544
title: The ABC Plan and Program: an evaluation of execution and distribution of resources

description: Abstract: This study analyzes regionally the allocation of resources for the various Sustainable Production Systems (SPS) of the ABC Program, in order to support discussion about the policy expressed by the ABC Plan, relating economic, agricultural and environmental characteristics. It was used the information from the ABC Program from 2013 to 2017, agricultural performance variables and the classification of predominant agricultural aptitude (APT) in the municipalities for the analysis and application of the Spearman correlation. When compared with the original objectives, the results show deficiencies in the distribution of resources within the Brazilian regions, subprograms and APT. There is a concentration of 65% of resources in the Midwest and Southeast, 98% in four (of ten) of SPS and 29% in municipalities with high APT. In the municipalities with high APT there is an even greater correlation of credit with the economic and agricultural performance, than with the area of degraded pastures. In general, the cattle herd is the variable most correlated with the loans, with a coefficient of 0.53 in relation to total resources. Changes that include differentiation of incentives as defined priority areas and expansion of monitoring actions are suggestions to improve the ABC Plan and Program.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303543
title: Analysis of the determinants of happiness in the LAR Cooperative Agroindustry

description: Abstract: Happiness is felt in a subjective way and its measurement involves the evaluation that each person makes of his life. In this sense, this study investigates the economic and social determinants that explain the happiness of the members of Lar Cooperativa Agroindustrial. In order to obtain the results, a questionnaire was elaborated that sought to capture the individual perception of happiness in a sample of 150 couples (300 individuals) distributed in 5 municipalities in the western region of Paraná, where the Cooperative operates. Based on these data, this analysis was carried out in two stages. In the first step, qualitative, words were identified that in the individual's perception describe happiness. In the second stage, quantitative, variables that describe the processes cited by the individuals were used in a logit model. The results showed that age, sex, number of hours worked and the presence of successors in farming activities affect the likelihood of individuals declaring themselves happy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303540
title: Distrust of the State and observance of the law among peasants in the San Nicolas Valley

description: Abstract In Colombia, political decisions related to the countryside preserve an unjust social order, maintaining inequities and obstacles to the well-being and life quality of farmers. In this scenario the Territorial Arrangement Planning of the San Nicolas Valley, in the East of the department of Antioquia, has generated a series of rural conflicts that accentuate the vulnerabilities of rural residents, threatening the agricultural tradition in this subregion. Thus, this study inquired about the perceptions of legality in the peasant population of the area. A descriptive-correlational study with non-probabilistic sampling was carried out, including 380 peasants, members of civic-rural associations of the San Nicolas Valley, evaluating in four scales: beliefs, values, knowledge of the law and perceived legality in the context. Statistical analyses were performed in SPSS v.22 software. The findings indicated significant relationships between the study variables. Despite the state abandonment of the proletariat to market forces in an area with socioeconomic imbalances, no determining link was found between low income and violation of the law.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303538
title: Technical efficiency of the agricultural production in Latin America and Caribbean countries

description: Abstract: This article studies the technical efficiency and the total productivity of agricultural factors in the countries of Latin America and of Caribbean. For this, it was applied the stochastic production frontier approach and the Malmquist productivity index. The data used were the value of production and the quantity of agricultural inputs from the years 1991 to 2012. The results showed that all countries presented technical inefficiency of agricultural production over the period. The variables that significantly explained the inefficiency of agricultural production were credit and energy consumption in agriculture, which represented an innovation in this area. The Malmquist productivity index showed that there were no gains in total factor productivity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303536
title: Characterization of Wine Marketing Channels in Alentejo: An approach based on the theory of transaction costs

description: Abstract: In Portugal, the wine industry has been successful in the last years with genuine products, which have gained a reputation in domestic and foreign markets. The potential of differentiation and the reduced size of the domestic market have lead consolidate positions in foreign markets, where efficient management of the marketing channels is important. Thus, this study has as objective the characterization of the marketing channels structures in the wine industry of Alentejo, and the assessment of their level of integration. In other words, it was aimed to know how the vertical constraints influence the transaction efficiency in those marketing channels. The methodology used was a mixed approach based on quantitative and qualitative analyzes. The former was based on interviews with wine industry’s experts, and the latter was carried out through a questionnaire applied to a sample of wine entrepreneurs from Alentejo. The results showed that the wine companies use several marketing channels for exports. By contrast to the literature, the analyzed companies do not coordinate their transactions through contracts. The results also allowed to conclude that uncertainty affects the transaction costs, as well as, asset specificity and namely those associated with human resources. Another conclusion is that the greater the frequency of transactions, the greater the level of integration of the marketing channels of the wine industry.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303534
title: The relationship between social and environmental responsibility and financial performance in agricultural production: the case of a financial institution's credit policy

description: Abstract: This paper aimes to examine the relationship between social and environmental responsibility and Financial Performance of Brazilian farms from 2009 to 2013 by the logistic regression analysis. This study considers four disaggregated RSA measures: social index, waste disposal index, environmental compliance index and sustainable management index. The financial performance was measured by the farms ability to pay, solvency and liquidity. The sample comprises 1,056 observations creating a primary database. The results of the estimates show that a better socio-environmental status (SS) is associated with a better financial performance and similar effects for each of the disaggregated RSA measures. Overall, all social and environmental performance measures were significant for at least one FP measure. The social indicator showed certain instability after the self-selection control, presenting a negative relation with the financial performance, which means the worse social performance associated with better solvency. This result reveals a situation whichthe positive effects of environmental aspects are more noticeable than social factors are. The inverse verification showed a positive relation between the financial performance and socioenvironmental status. The general results show that RSA does not compromise the PF for the sample of rural properties studied.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303531
title: Clientelism and participation in public policies for rural development in Brazil

description: Abstract: The study discusses the permanence of clientelistic practices and their tensions with the participatory approach adopted within the framework of the Brazilian public policy of rural territorial development. It examines, in particular, the case of local implementation of the National Program of Territorial Development. The results come from the study of the Territorial Collegiate functioning and the projects implemented in the Águas Emendadas Territory in the Brazilian Midwest. It was used a socio-anthropological approach of patronage and political participation through the analysis of the social configuration and the relations of instrumentalization as much in as in the participatory spaces and the projects of this territory. The results show the existence of a not only social but also an affective dimension of clientele practice that can be analyzed as an asymmetrical reciprocity relationship based on the principle of anthropological reciprocity or as a process of unequal political exchange, considering political science approach.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303529
title: Um Uruguai polarizado: tendências na estrutura agrária 1990 - 2011

description: Resumo: Este artigo contribui para a compreensão das transformações que têm ocorrido na sociedade rural do Uruguai contemporâneo. Para tal, foram testadas empiricamente três hipóteses. A primeira envolve o estudo da relevância e vigência de um esquema tradicional sobre a estrutura agrícola do Uruguai, que distingue entre produtores empresariais, produtores familiares e assalariados. Para tal, foi realizada uma análise de componentes principais (ACP) sobre variáveis do Censo Geral Agrícola de 1990, 2000 e 2011, tendo sido identificados diferentes agrupamentos territoriais em função do grau de predominância de diferentes tipos de produção (empresarial ou familiar). A segunda hipótese propõe o avanço da lógica do agronegócio na agricultura uruguaia. Para estudar isto, foi analisada a distribuição de vários atributos identificados pela literatura que discute a “lógica” ou o “modelo” do agronegócio, avaliando sua incidência nos territórios identificados pelas análises de clusters realizadas sobre os fatores identificados pela ACP. Finalmente, uma terceira hipótese argumenta que a lógica do agronegócio colide com e é antagônica à lógica da produção familiar. Em relação a isso, a análise mostra uma estrutura agrária polarizada, na qual os modelos de produção estão cada vez mais distantes.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303528
title: Formation of Agricultural Technicians in Brazil and Spain: Rural youth life projects

description: Abstract: This paper aims to discuss the articulation among gender, technical-professional education in Agriculture and life projects of rural youth in the Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia in the north of Brazil and the Centros de Formación Agraria in the north of Spain. This is an exploratory-descriptive study, which was carried out by mixed methods. A questionnaire with 22 open and 12 closed questions was answered by 130 male and 67 female participants (142 Brazilians and 55 Spaniards). Furthermore, four in-depth interviews with school administrators (02 Brazilians and 02 Spaniards) and two with rural youngsters were carried out for data triangulation to verify and validate the gathered information. Quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics procedures, while qualitative data categorization followed the thematic coding process. The results show a link between technical vocational training and the life projects of young students, with a strong difference marked by gender, and the option for agricultural training among young Brazilians has an instrumental function of opening possibilities for access to other courses or other areas of training, while Spanish boys are more clearly familiarly related to agricultural activities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303526
title: Agribusiness participation in the economic structure of a Brazilian region: analysis of GDP and indirect taxes

description: Abstract: Agribusiness, including all its dimensions, is the largest economic sector in Brazil and plays a fundamental role in the development of the country's economy. About one-fourth of the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is composed of agribusiness. The objective of this article is to evaluate the participation of agribusiness in the economy of an important region of Brazil from 2010 to 2015. The evaluation was carried out through the decomposition of GDP, with an analysis of aggregate inputs, agro-livestock products, industrialization, and services. This article presents three main contributions to the understanding and composition of agribusiness GDP. The novelty of this article lies in the fact that it is the first work in the literature to present the steps of the methodology for calculating GDP in a region representing Brazilian agribusiness, considering its aggregates and relating the generation of taxes and other factors. In addition to the empirical and methodological contributions, this article highlights the relevance of agribusiness to the Brazilian economy, which, in turn, has relevance to global agribusiness.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303525
title: Do subsidies drive technical efficiency? The case of portuguese firms in the agribusiness sector

description: Abstract: Successive reforms in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), enlargements of the European Union (EU) and pressures in the public budget increase the need for empirical studies to assess the role of subsidies in shaping firms’ performance and, hence, to support policy-makers decisions and decision-making in the productive sector. This paper assesses whether subsidies affect the technical efficiency of 1,943 Portuguese agribusiness firms over 2007-2015. By applying stochastic frontier models and fixed-effects models, to calculate the average efficiency of these firms, the results show different effects of subsidies among agribusiness sectors. The stochastic frontier model revealed that the subsidies have a positive and significant impact on the technical efficiency of three sectors, animal production, manufacture of food, and manufacture of paper. Further, except for firms in the forestry and logging sector, Portuguese agribusiness firms had higher average efficiency levels when subsidised, which provides evidence that subsidies could be important and contribute positively to the technical efficiency of Portuguese firms.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303522
title: Economic growth patterns of the MATOPIBA’S municipalities

description: Abstract: This paper aims to classify the municipalities of MATOPIBA based on a set of socioeconomic variables, mainly agricultural characteristics, as well as to decompose the growth of the sectorial GVA in the period 2010-2015, in order to identify groups of with competitive advantages and specialization. It was also used cluster and shift-share analysis based on information from IBGE, RAIS and UNDP. More specifically, the shift-share will be realized based on the groups formed by the cluster analysis, which allows a better integration of the methods. The main results show the formation of five groups, being only one of them considered incipient from the point of view of the agriculture dynamism. Shift-share results indicate that this group considered incipient was the only one to present negative VLT and did not present competitive advantage nor to be specialized in Agriculture.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303519
title: Price volatility transmissions between brazilian agricultural Commodities

description: Abstract: This paper verified the price volatility transmissions among Brazilian agricultural commodities, more specifically ethanol, sugar, and soybeans. Daily data between January 25, 2010, and December 28, 2018, from CEPEA, were used. Initially, an error correction vector model was estimated to filter the series of their long term relationship and then model their respective volatilities without the interference of co-movement between the averages of prices using the multivariate generalized autoregressive conditioned heteroscedasticity Baba-Engle-Kraft-Kroner model were applied. The results suggest that the prices of ethanol, soybeans, and sugar are both related to the long-term equilibrium and short-term equilibrium dynamics. However, it is not able to conclude that there is volatility spillover among the analyzed prices. Therefore, the concerning with ethanol as a source of food prices instability is not justified according to the results.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14303516
title: The performance of municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul in the implementation of the resources of the PNAE with family agriculture

description: Abstract: The family farming in Brazil is responsible for generating employment and income in the countryside, as well as providing food to the population. In this sense, it is strategic for the State to devise mechanisms that may contribute to mitigating the socioeconomic vulnerabilities faced by this segment. Among public policies with this office, it is highlighted the Brazilian experience in the constitution of institutional markets, such as the National School Feeding Program (PNAE). The present work aims to analyze the performance of the municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul (BR), in the period from 2011 to 2016, in relation to the investments made in the acquisition of food products from family agriculture for school feeding. For this propose, it was made a documentary and bibliographic research and were analyzed secondary data available in the Account Management System of the National Education Fund. It was verified that the Rio Grande do Sul invested 24.9% of the resource available for PNAE in food from family agriculture, and 67% of the municipalities of Rio Grande do Sul compiled the goal established in Law 11.947/2009. The results illustrate an increasing trend in the number of municipalities that joined the program and show an increase in the volume of resources negotiated with family farms over the period analyzed.