This article evaluates economic and environmental impacts of Brazilian highway conditions. The economic benefits evaluated were: diesel consumption, travel time and vehicle maintenance; the environmental benefits evaluated were the reduction on negative externalities related to decrease on carbon...

This study analyzes the best warehousing location for sugar exportation in the state of Sao Paulo using the railway transportation. A mixed integer programming model was developed and its results indicate some trends for localization and capacity of these warehouses. Four scenarios were...

Atualmente, dois dos grandes desafios com os quais o agronegócio brasileiro, responsável por aproximadamente 33% do PIB nacional (SECEX, 2005), se depara em seu constante crescimento são a alta dependência de produtos químicos (fertilizantes) para que sua fronteira agrícola se expanda e,...

One of the processes of the Organic Agriculture is the conversion, in which the agricultural activity is converted from conventional farming to the organic one. In the coffee case, the conversion from conventional to the organic system may bring some benefits, for example, the independence of...