CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduation at Filosofia from Université de Paris X, Nanterre (1974), master's at Science Politics from Universidade de São Paulo (1981) and doctorate at Economy from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1990). Has experience in Economics, focusing on Agricultural Economics and Natural Resources, acting on the following subjects: agricultura familiar, desenvolvimento rural, desenvolvimento sustentável, capital social and economia institucional. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Amazon deforestation issue is a question that concerns all the world as it has important consequences in terms of its environmental impacts and global warming. However, currently the question of possible environmental impacts of international agricultural markets' liberalization on Amazon deforestation is not definitively answered. These issues are crucial not only for the world, but …
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On the second national inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, the Ministry of Science and Technology records that changes in land use and forestry remained the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, accounting for 77% of total emissions (1,258,626 Gg CO2) (MCT, 2010). The changes in the Amazon biome (deforestation for agricultural crops or pastures) contributed with 51.5% of carbon d…
Biofuels based on agricultural commodities have recently lost support of several institutions and eminent researchers, not only because these renewable resources have presumably very limited potential to substitute oil. Encouragement has even harmed since the race to grow oleaginous and sugar crops signalized worrisome reverberations on landscape mosaics, food markets and working conditio…
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