This work aims to detect effects on the quantiles of the distribution of the educational development index (IDE - Educational Development Index) for the case of the Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro Brasileira (UNILAB), allowing to identify and verify whether a given factor has greater effect on students with high, medium or low academic performance. For this purpose, the Quantile Regre...
O projeto de piscicultura Curupatí-Peixe, é uma inciativa de um grupo de ex-agricultores que encontrou nessa atividade uma forma de incrementar a renda vinda das atividades rurais que são sempre comprometidas no município de Jaguaribara que faz parte do ecossistema do semiárido brasileiro. O trabalho de extensão e de campo, se realizou no mês de junho deste ano. A viagem, faz parte das atividades de extensão do...
Constitui-se de um trabalho elaborado a partir de uma coleção de estudos discutidos no segundo simpósio em economia rural promovido pelo programa de pós-graduação em Economia Rural (MAER) da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC).
Living Pharmacies (LPs) were conceived in Ceará and originated the Public Policy on Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapy, which has been seeking to revitalize this activity. The multi case study, based on content analysis, aimed to characterize the LPs of Fortaleza seeking to know their dynamics and the social actors and, analyze them in terms of innovation and compliance with policy regulations. LPs share similar...
The problem that arises in this study is: the poor distribution of land remains a relevant obstacle for rural development in the Brazilian semiarid?The work compares the definition of rural used by the IBGE with recent bibliographies and applies for the regional case. Then studies the aggregate level the behavior of the average area of agricultural establishments and theGini index which measures the inequality ...
Compare a technical efficiency (TE) between the semiarid and non semiarid regions of Ceará, using a metafrontier approach. The analysis is developed using an output technology (farming production) and multi-inputs (capital, labor, land, input expenses and capital stock). The results showed that the average metatechnology for the semiarid region of Ceará was 52%, that is, the maximum product used by its own comb...
The central purpose of this study is to map the Local Productive Arrangements (APLs) in 184 municipalities of the state of Ceará. The method used is based on Crocco et al. (2003), and uses the indicators to identify clusters. From these indicators draw up the Concentration Index linked to a sector within a municipality. To calculate the weight of each concentration indices, using the method of factor analyses u...
This paper evaluates the effects of the staggered production (production of fish and offal) of tilapia in Castanhão Dam, Jaguaribara, Ceará, with regard to economic results and environmental impacts. The survey selected by random drawing 81 of 300 fish farmers organized in cooperatives or not. Linear programming technique used to minimize the costs of the quarterly staggered production of fish and offal. The re...
The agriculture, especially the fruit growing sector, possesses considerable importance in Ceará economy and to the Nordeste as a whole, pointing to the need to know the characteristics related to the marketing of fruit as well as studies on the behavior of prices of these products. The knowledge of seasonality pattern and trend the prices the products originating from this sector, has significant importance in...
The objective of this work was to study the evolution of the cost of the basket of basic goods in the city of Fortaleza, in the period from January 1985 to June 1997. The results showed that the basket of basic goods in Fortaleza presented a very adjusted seasonal curve, with elevation tendency in the first semester; maximum point in June, decreasing in the second semester, coinciding with the harvest time of m...