Assessing Brazil's Cerrado agricultural miracle

Food Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 146-155

  Rada, Nicholas ^a  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazilian agriculture; Cerrado; Efficiency; Input distance function; Stochastic frontier; Technical change; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; GLOBALIZATION; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; SAVANNA; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

BRAZIL; GUINEA;

EID: 84871502663     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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