The expenditure with foods of the Brazilian families have been affected by the alterations in the income and its distribution, the relative prices of the goods and by other structural transformations occurred in the Brazilian society, among which can be cited those associates with the...

The Brazilian Amazon is a large piece of land that hosts only 12% of Brazilian population. Even this low figure and people mostly living in urban areas, the overexploitation of the forest resources driven by economic activities seems to be out-of-control. In the 1970s, abundant government...