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"This paper discussed the market access and domestic support pillars in the Doha Round negotiations.
We estimate that Brazil received $16 of benefit from every dollar invested by Embrapa in improving upland rice, edible beans, and soybean varieties.
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been repla
Despite the importance of tropical moist forests for conserving biodiversity and storing carbon, forests continue to fall, because the private benefits of clearing land for agriculture far outweigh tangible economic gains from retaining forests.
En 1996, Brasil empleó más de 5.000 investigadores equivalentes de tiempo completo e invirtió más de $1.000 millones (dólares internacionales de 1993) en I&D agropecuario, casi la mitad del gasto total de América Latina en investigación agrope
In 1996, Brazil employed more than 5,000 full-time equivalent researchers and spent more than $1 billion (1993 international dollars) on agricultural R&D; about one half of the total agricultural research spending throughout Latin America in t
Em 1996, o Brasil empregava mais de 5.000 pesquisadores em tempo integral, e gastava mais de $1 bilhão (em dólares internacionais de 1993) em pesquisa agropecuária; cerca da metade do gasto total em pesquisa agropecuária de toda a América Latina.
Policy for plenty
This paper suggests practical methods for assessing policy research programs, both ex post and ex ante.
The success of modern technology in increasing yields on high-potential lands has been so great that researchers and policymakers alike have been quick to use modern inputs on marginal lands as well.
Brazil’s minimum price program operates under a set of minimum prices announced before the planting season. These prices are normally set below the expected market prices at harvest time.