There is much in common between the agricultural sectors of the United States and Canada. This chapter begins with a brief background on the two sectors, then reviews their histories of farm policy developments before reporting new estimates of rates of assistance to their farmers and their…
There is much in common between the agricultural sectors of the United States and Canada. This chapter begins with a brief background on the two sectors, then reviews their histories of farm policy developments before reporting new estimates of rates of assistance to their farmers and their…
Este trabalho analisa o preço da terra no período 1975 a 2006, mas ocupa-seprincipalmente com o período mais recente, de 2000 a 2006. Para que o leitor tenha umamelhor dimensão dos preços de terras no Brasil, comparações serão realizadas com ospreços de terras nos Estados Unidos em anos recentes…
El 2008 está a medio camino del plazo previsto para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio. Pero, pese a los avances logrados, no se conseguirán de continuar las tendencias actuales. Se calcula que faltarán US$30,000 millones de la ayuda prometida, déficit que podría costar cinco…
Public-Private Partnerships broadly identify a spectrum of complex legal arrangements between the public and the private sector to provide goods or services within a country. The objective of the PPP is share control, risks, and rewards of a set of fixed assets between a private enterprise and a…
We quantify the emergence of biofuel markets and its impact on U.S. andworld agriculture for the coming decade using the multi-market multi-commodityinternational FAPRI model. The model incorporates the tradeoffs between biofuel, feed,and food production and consumption and international…
Las élites de los Estados Unidos están profundamente polarizadas. La polarización de los partidos Demócrata y Republicano se encuentra en su punto más alto desde finales del siglo XIX. ¿Cómo puede explicarse este fenómeno a la luz del evidente crecimiento económico de los Estados Unidos? Este…
Leyendo el informe titulado: “El verdadero costo de los agrocombustibles Alimentación,bosques y clima”, podremos descubrir cuán ilógicos, inapropiados y directamente contraproducentes pueden ser estos biocombustibles; cómo están ya trastornando a miles de familias alrededor del mundo, que se ven…
The current support policy is increasing gaps in land management intensity among different regions of the country. The support policy for agricultural and rural development does not deal with solutions for land abandonment or environmental objectives, because the abandonment is becoming a hidden…