Land market and soil and water management in watershed: the Rural Paraná Program case - DOI: 10.4025/actascihumansoc.v25i1.2209

Abstract

This multidisciplinary study made use of the soil and water management and watershed studies carried out in Paraná State, in the last quarters of the 20^th century, to evaluate if the price of the land is affected by environmental improvements. Paraná Rural Program was evaluated through econometrics, in three levels of priority in its form of action: high, middle and low priority. Thus, based on these differences of the program application, results revealed that there is a positive relationship between the land market and the environment. Therefore, the efforts of these policies reached not only productive, but also the agents' speculative expectations, because they observed that by adopting conservationist practices the reproduction of the profits was increased, in terms of both productivity and price increment of their properties