Agricultural Development in Brazil: The Rise of a Global Agro-Food Power

Antônio MárcioBuainain is senior lecturer of Economics at the Institute of Economics at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in Campinas, Brazil. He is also a researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology on Public Policy, Strategies and Development and at the Center for Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Unicamp. His research areas are agricultural and rural development, including extensive work on innovation in agriculture, agrarian reform, rural poverty and agricultural policies in Brazil and Latin America.

Rodrigo Lanna is associate professor at the Institute of Economics, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. He is also a researcher at the Center for Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Unicamp. His research has focused on agricultural economics and finance and his current work on agricultural finance includes price and volatility analysis, risk management and credit issues in agriculture.

Zander Navarro is a senior researcher at the Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research (Embrapa), Brazil. A sociologist specializing in ＂rural social processes＂, he was previously a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, UK from 2003 to 2009.