Land reform in NE Brazil: a stochastic frontier production efficiency evaluation

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural

Marcelo Marques De Magalhães²  Hildo Meirelles De Souza Filho¹  Miguel Rocha De Sousa¹  José Maria F. J. Da Silveira¹  Antônio Márcio Buainain¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Estadual de São PauloTupã

关键词: Land Reform;    Human Capital;    Technical Assistance;    Rural Credit;    Stochastic Frontier;    Reforma Agrária;    Capital Humano;    Assistência Técnica;    Crédito Rural;    Fronteira Estocástica;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0103-20032011000100001

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this paper is to address the sources of technical and allocative inefficiency from a cross section sample of 308 beneficiaries of a market assisted land reform program, called "Cédula da Terra"; from five states in Northeastern region of Brazil. In spite of some differences on governance of the "Cédula da Terra"; in comparison with traditional expropriation land reform program, studies carried by Buainain et al. (2002) have shown small differences between then, regarding their social and economic characteristics. We believe that our results could be useful to identify the main problems of Brazilian land reform settlements. We estimated a potential production frontier following the methodology of Battese and Coelli (1995), Coelli et al. (1998) and applied econometric techniques to explain inefficiency. The results indicate the existence of technical and allocative inefficiency, which is identified mostly in situations where the presence of production for consumption is high. This is a result that shows how immature the agriculture activity is in most of Cédula da Terra Program settlements and the difficulty to overcome the limitations imposed by the initial condition of formation of agrarian reform, primarily in Northeastern region of Brazil.

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