Productivity and logistics in the production of biodiesel

Abstract

Over last years the familiar agriculture has received more attention by public policies, as in the National Program of Strenghtening of familiar agriculture and in the National Program of production and use of biodiesel. However the obstacles referring to logistics and the other costs related to biodiesel system may get advantageous in economic terms for industries to produce their own inputs or even to buy from big rural farmers. Having this in mind, the exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) is adopted by verifying as the variables such as average receipt, biodiesel output and transport network associate each other during the year 2005. Using univariate and bivariate spatial analysis techniques, the findings reveal all global spatial interactions are positive and significant, but there are differences when investigating local patterns by means of emerging of spatial clusters. Key words: familiar agriculture; biodiesel; exploratory spatial data analysis. JEL classification: R12. Artigo recebido em nov. 2008 e aceito para publicação em nov. 2009.