Instituto de Economia Agrícola
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The Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA - Agricultural Economics Institute), linked to the Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios
(APTA) is a major public scientific research
institute on economics and statistics
applied to agricultural and farming questions, established in São Paulo
, Brazil
. The aim to provide technical information to support agribusiness
decision makers and governmental policies.
IEA was generated in the bosom of Dept. of Vegetable Production (DVP), created within Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento in 1942. During a period to deepen his knowledge of fiber technology area, Agronomical Engineer Dr. Rui Miller Paiva became acquainted with the agricultural economy area and decided to follow that the discipline. Returning to São Paulo, Paiva brought with him ideas and the knowledge that led to the creation of the Rural Studies Commission, DPV’s antecessor, the first Brazilian pole on economic issues related to agriculture.
IEA’s pioneering spirit continued for over 65 years. As early as the end of 1970, for example, researchers from that Institute would carry out assessments about the energetic balance of crops (today the concept is widely used in the discussions on bioenergy) and the effect of the expansion of sugar cane crop on soil use in the São Paulo (replacement of crops). In the latest years, its involvement with techno-science (nanotechnology) and its social and economical effects within agriculture are the highlight.
IEA is a pioneer in probability sampling in order to forecast harvests, price surveys and the calculation of the market basket. Currently, it calculates and disseminates agricultural prices every four weeks, or the countryside inflation. The agriculture prices are a reference for the markets, wholesales, retailers and producers, both on a state and national level.
IEA’s statistical surveys (prices, production, estimates for harvests, labor market, land market) provided a model for other agriculture economics institutions. IEA introduced the MIT methodology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), as well as the World Bank’s, for the conception and economical assessment of agriculture development projects. The economical, prognostics, and the production costs analyses, the census of São Paulo agriculture and the cattle raising census, and the technical and scientific magazines have proved to be important information sources for decision-making on public and private policies.
The Institute takes part in the formulation of public policies concerning the financing of Fundo de Expansão do Agronegócio Paulista (FEAP) in addition to contributing to the analyses of the support financing for small-scale agri-industry. Its surveys are used as a basis for choosing the municipalities to be benefited by the subsidy projects for the State’s awarding of rural insurance.
IEA discloses data on São Paulo’s trade balance per group of commodities, and that ranking was developed by the institution itself. It’s also discloses data on São Paulo and Brazil’s agribusiness per added factor (basic and industrialized products) and by use category.
Prices (land, inputs, producer, wholesale, retail);
Crop estimation and forecasting (area, production, yield);
Labor market;
Land market and others.
Data are obtained by census, sampling and other survey methods.
Informações Econômicas (Economic Information): a monthly technical and scientific journal publishing articles and analyses in the field of social and economic relations in agriculture. It also publishes statistical data. Accepts external contributions. Printed and open electronic versions are available.
Informações Estatísticas da Agricultura (Agriculture Statistical Information): yearbook with statistical data on vegetal and animal production, prices, labor market and other. Printed and open electronic versions are available.
Análises e Indicadores do Agronegócio (Agribusiness Analyses and Indicators): electronic review aimed at a fast dissemination of analyses and statistics about agriculture and cattle raising, with a focus on public policies, market and foreign trade. Only open electronic version are available.
All publications, statistics and other services are open and available for free download at the Institute website.
INSTITUTO DE ECONOMIA AGRÍCOLA. Folder Institucional. São Paulo: IEA, 2008.
Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios
The Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios , linked to Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento , came about in 2001, in order to coordinate all agriculture and cattle raising research in the state of São Paulo, Brazil...
(APTA) is a major public scientific research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
institute on economics and statistics
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
applied to agricultural and farming questions, established in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. The aim to provide technical information to support agribusiness
Agribusiness
In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term for the various businesses involved in food production, including farming and contract farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales....
decision makers and governmental policies.
IEA was generated in the bosom of Dept. of Vegetable Production (DVP), created within Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento in 1942. During a period to deepen his knowledge of fiber technology area, Agronomical Engineer Dr. Rui Miller Paiva became acquainted with the agricultural economy area and decided to follow that the discipline. Returning to São Paulo, Paiva brought with him ideas and the knowledge that led to the creation of the Rural Studies Commission, DPV’s antecessor, the first Brazilian pole on economic issues related to agriculture.
IEA’s pioneering spirit continued for over 65 years. As early as the end of 1970, for example, researchers from that Institute would carry out assessments about the energetic balance of crops (today the concept is widely used in the discussions on bioenergy) and the effect of the expansion of sugar cane crop on soil use in the São Paulo (replacement of crops). In the latest years, its involvement with techno-science (nanotechnology) and its social and economical effects within agriculture are the highlight.
IEA is a pioneer in probability sampling in order to forecast harvests, price surveys and the calculation of the market basket. Currently, it calculates and disseminates agricultural prices every four weeks, or the countryside inflation. The agriculture prices are a reference for the markets, wholesales, retailers and producers, both on a state and national level.
IEA’s statistical surveys (prices, production, estimates for harvests, labor market, land market) provided a model for other agriculture economics institutions. IEA introduced the MIT methodology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), as well as the World Bank’s, for the conception and economical assessment of agriculture development projects. The economical, prognostics, and the production costs analyses, the census of São Paulo agriculture and the cattle raising census, and the technical and scientific magazines have proved to be important information sources for decision-making on public and private policies.
The Institute takes part in the formulation of public policies concerning the financing of Fundo de Expansão do Agronegócio Paulista (FEAP) in addition to contributing to the analyses of the support financing for small-scale agri-industry. Its surveys are used as a basis for choosing the municipalities to be benefited by the subsidy projects for the State’s awarding of rural insurance.
IEA discloses data on São Paulo’s trade balance per group of commodities, and that ranking was developed by the institution itself. It’s also discloses data on São Paulo and Brazil’s agribusiness per added factor (basic and industrialized products) and by use category.
Agricultural Economics Database
A wide variety of statistical data are available at the official website:Prices (land, inputs, producer, wholesale, retail);
Crop estimation and forecasting (area, production, yield);
Labor market;
Land market and others.
Data are obtained by census, sampling and other survey methods.
Library
A specialized collection of over 40 thousands titles in the field of agricultural economics and related topics, open to the public from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.Publications
Revista de Economia Agrícola (Review of Agricultural Economics): a semiannual scientific journal aimed at providing articles, communications, book and thesis reviews, notes and commentaries. Accepts external contributions on Portuguese, English and Spanish. Printed and open electronic versions are available.Informações Econômicas (Economic Information): a monthly technical and scientific journal publishing articles and analyses in the field of social and economic relations in agriculture. It also publishes statistical data. Accepts external contributions. Printed and open electronic versions are available.
Informações Estatísticas da Agricultura (Agriculture Statistical Information): yearbook with statistical data on vegetal and animal production, prices, labor market and other. Printed and open electronic versions are available.
Análises e Indicadores do Agronegócio (Agribusiness Analyses and Indicators): electronic review aimed at a fast dissemination of analyses and statistics about agriculture and cattle raising, with a focus on public policies, market and foreign trade. Only open electronic version are available.
All publications, statistics and other services are open and available for free download at the Institute website.
Sources
MAGALHÃES, G.W. (coord.) Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo. São Paulo: Governo do Estado de São Paulo, 2008.INSTITUTO DE ECONOMIA AGRÍCOLA. Folder Institucional. São Paulo: IEA, 2008.