Abordagem Alternativa do Crescimento Agrícola: um Modelo de Dinâmica Evolucionária

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Campos, Antônio Carvalho, Ferreira, Carlos Maurício de Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Inovação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rbi/article/view/8648919
• topic: Evolutionary Theory; Agricultural Dynamics; Competition; Technological Change; O1; O12; O3; O33; Teoria evolucionária. Dinâmica agrícola. Competição. Mudança tecnológica.; O1; O12; O3

This paper aims at analyzing agricultural production under an evolutionary approach. The theoretical framework that supports the analysis is based on the assumptions of procedural and substantive uncertainties, bounded rationality, dynamic disequilibrium and structural instability. At first, specialization and localization indicators are determined in order to compare the Brazilian agricultural technology evolution within the interregional context. Later on, an Agriculture Evolutionary Growth Model, named MECA, has been constructed to simulate the probable behavior of agricultural grain producers and of any other commercial agricultural activity. In this way, it was possible to identify the agroindustrial dynamic region as well as the standard behavior of technical change in agriculture. In an environment of technological competition, the model shows that competition for productive resources in the agribusiness sector leads to a permanently search for innovations, characterizing an evolutionary dynamics among agricultural activities, and to a higher sectoral and regional concentration of capital.