Agriculture productivity growth in Brazil:

This report explains about the
agriculture productivity growth in Brazil.Agriculture has
been an island of success in terms of productivity growth in
the last decades compared to other sectors of the Brazilian
economy and compared to other country’s agriculture
sector.Agriculture productivity growth in recent decades in
Brazil has been mainly driven by investments in agriculture
innovation, facilitation of sector financing, and trade
liberalization. Trade liberalization has shown to be an
important factor in the growth of agriculture productivity
in recent decades, which can serve as an important
experience for other Brazilian economic sectors that remain
relatively close to trade. Agriculture productivity has room
to grow further, improving productivity of lagging mid-size
farmers and regions, reforming agriculture policies towards
agriculture financing, agrologistics, and research and
development(R&D).Experience within Brazil shows that
agriculture productivity can continue to grow without
depleting natural capital nor further increasing greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions. Unlike the structural economic
transformation of other countries, Brazilian agriculture
productivity growth has been a net job creator. Agriculture
productivity growth in Brazil can therefore continue its
positive upward trend, while being environmentally
sustainable, creating jobs, and increasing incomes for the
rural poor.The motivation for this report is to explore the
evolution and source of the strong agriculture productivity
growth that has occurred in Brazil in recent decades,
identifying opportunities and challenges for future
development of the sector. The goal is to look for
opportunities to accelerate agriculture productivity growth,
to have an increased impact on sector growth, jobs,
environmental sustainability, and poverty reduction, as well
as potentially to shed light on lessons that can contribute
to efforts to boost productivity in other sectors within
Brazil. The report is divided into five sections. Following
this introduction, Section two describes the evolution and
sources of agriculture productivity growth in recent years;
Section three evaluates the contributions of different
factors of production, such as natural, human and physical
capital; Section four explores the opportunities for further
maximizing agriculture growth in Brazil through increases in
productivity; and Section five presents conclusions and
policy recommendations on how to further maximize
agriculture productivity in Brazil while having positive
social (poverty reduction and jobs) and environmental impacts.