The uneven modernization of Brazilian agriculture from 2006 to 2017
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modernização, agropecuária, análise fatorial, Brasil // modernization, agriculture, factorial analysis, BrazilAbstract
This paper aims to analyze the factors that shape the dynamics of Brazil’s agriculture modernization between 2006 and 2017. This period has been characterized by a huge expansion of agricultural production in Brazil, and simultaneously a large share of that production has been driven to foreign markets. Assuming that modernization is a multifaceted phenomenon, twenty-four variables related to it were calculated for 137 Brazilian mesoregions, and five factors were estimated, which measure: capital/labor ratio (Factor 1), capital/land ratio (Factor 2), the infrastructure and intensity of the institutional support (Factor 3), intensity-use of inputs by crops (Factor 4) and sustainable land use (Factor 5). There is an uneven distribution of factor-scores among the Brazilian mesoregions in 2006 as well as in 2017, leading to conclude that modernization of the Brazilian agriculture continues unevenly taking place throughout the Brazilian territory during the 2000s and 2010s.
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