Economic Sustainability in Emerging Agro-Industrial Systems: The Case of Brazilian Olive Cultivation

Luiz Clovis Belarmino (), Antonio Domingos Padula and Margarita Navarro Pabsdorf
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Luiz Clovis Belarmino: Embrapa Temperate Climate, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, POB 403, Pelotas 96010-971, Brazil
Antonio Domingos Padula: School of Administration, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90010-460, Brazil
Margarita Navarro Pabsdorf: Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Granada, P. de Cartuja, 18011 Granada, Spain

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 12, 1-15

Abstract: The economic sustainability of agro-industrial systems expresses firms’ competitive capacity and can be achieved with greater innovation, productivity and price management. The emerging olive oil agro-industrial systems in Brazil lack the information on economic and financial performance that they need to grow. The objective of this study is to evaluate the financial viability of an olive grove and the competitiveness and economic sustainability of the extra virgin olive oil using primary data collected and analyzed by the policy analysis matrix method. The main indicators considered with respect to current production and commercialization techniques are private and social profitability, added value, remuneration of domestic factors and total factor productivity. It is concluded that the emerging extra virgin olive oil agro-industrial system in Brazil has financially viable olive groves, significant competitiveness and presents economic sustainability.

Keywords: olive oil; policy analysis matrix (PAM); agrifood systems; competitiveness; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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