Economic analysis of agroforestry systems established in agricultural family farm unities on Iperó and Ibiúna regions (SP)

• Grant number: 14/23163-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2015
• End date: August 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Agrarian and Natural Resource Economics
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Silveira Franco
• Grantee: Henrique Ryosuke Tateishi
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias para a Sustentabilidade (CCTS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Sorocaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This paper analyzed the economic viability of production based on agroforestry, organic and conventional systems, centered on case studies at Ibiúna and Iperó (São Paulo). The used methodology was the economic viability of projects and considered analyzing the cost structure and outcome from the production units, indicator for economic viability of projects, total productivity factors and the profitability and productivity ratios between three analyzed systems. One of the most important results has shown that the substitution of land, capital and labor production factors were imperfect and it brings also social consequences.