This paper aims to analyze the regional impacts of the steel and environmental policies on the structure and location of charcoal production in Brazil during the time period from 1980 to 2007. Both statistic and interpretative analysis of secondary data, organized in tables or graphs, are used,...

The last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the current century have seen a continuous shift of the economic dynamic from North American and European countries to the pacific countries, specially the ones located on Eastern Asia, highlighting the Chinese growth. However, Brazil...

Brazilian agriculture has grown enormously during the past three decades. An interesting aspect of this growth is the respective roles of family and non-family farming, and the seeming importance of this distinction to Brazilian agricultural policy, reflected in the existence of separate...