Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho

Holds a degree in Agronomy from the University of São Paulo (1977), a master's degree in Science (Applied Economics) from the University of São Paulo (1988), and a PhD in Economics from the University of São Paulo (1995). Postdoctoral degree from the Centre of Policy Studies - COPS, at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Currently a Senior Professor at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo. He is the lead author of Chapter 5.2 - Human Clusters, Industry, and Infrastructure (Rural Areas) of the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change. Has experience in the field of Economics, with an emphasis on Agrarian and Natural Resource Economics, working mainly on the following topics: economics of land-use change, Brazilian agriculture, agriculture, computable general equilibrium models, regional analyses, input-output models, Social Accounting Matrices, and analyses of the impacts of economic policies on income distribution and poverty in Brazil. Member of RedeClima. Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Applied Economics at ESALQ/USP, 2013-2015. Principal investigator at the Carbon Research Center in Tropical Agriculture (CCARBON/USP). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)