REZENDE, Gervásio Castro de <br/><br/>
Do cruzado ao colhor :  os planos de estabilizações e a agricultura 

 - São Paulo :  Nobel,  abr./jun. 1992 
<br/><br/> This paper traces the macroeconomic roots of the current agricultural crisis. It shows that the increase in inflationary instability after 1986, and the policies adopted by the Go-vernment, since then, to fight hyperinflation, caused the terms of trade of agriculture to be-come much more unstable, at the same time that the Government pulled back the support they had been providing to agriculture; these adverse conditions ultimately caused the reduc-tion of activity levels in agriculture in 1989 and 1990. The paper concludes by pointing out the implications for the current stabilization strategy