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The integration crop-livestock systems (iCL) may provide a number of benefits, such as the restoration of degraded pas-turelands, improvement on the physical, chemical and biological soil attributes, reduction of greenhouse gases emissions, scope economies and rural income diversification. But why the adoption of iCL is still very low? The paper recently published by Marcelo Carrer (UFSCar), Alexandre Gori Maia (UNICAMP), MarcelaVinholis (Embrapa) and Hildo Meirelles de Souza (UFSCar) at the journal Land Use Policy highligths how the provision of subsidized rural credit may be key to the adoption of more sustainable agriculture practices.

Credit will probably not solve the problem of family farming in the developing world, but it may help a lot. The paper recently published by Alexandre Gori Maia, Gabriela Eusebio and Rodrigo Lanna da Silveira (UNICAMP) at the journal Agricultural Finance Review evaluates the impacts of one of the largest programs of rural credit in the developing world, the PRONAF in Brazil.

Both in Brazil and in the U.S., labor earnings still represent nearly 80% of the total income reported in household surveys. Thus, labor market will decidedly play a central role on total income inequality. The paper recently published by Alexandre Gori Maia, Arthur Sakamoto (Texas A&M University) and Sharron Wang (Delaware State University) analyzes the relationship between the development of occupational structure and income inequality in Brazil and the U.S.

Two recently published papers discuss how the blockchain technology can be applied in environmental policies.  The papers argue that blockchain can decentralize and deburocratize the water governance.

The 2019 AAEA Annual Meeting (Agricutural & Aplied Economics Association) took place in Atlant, from July 21st to 23rd 2019. Alexandre Gori presented two papers highlighting the impacts of a climate resilience program in the Brazilian semiarid region (Sertão).