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Main objectives: supervise the bibliographic review, analyze the materials collected during field visits, define an action schedule for empirical scientific research and coordinate the activities of other researchers. It will be responsible for analyzing the legal framework and the role of the public sector, verifying the dichotomy of public and private coordination, the possible challenge of the bottom-up approach versus efficiency and the criteria for economic success with socio-environmental sustainability. It will coordinate both didactic and informative material and pedagogical activities to raise awareness and involvement with public policies. Manage PhD fellow(s) to make calculation estimates, develop scenarios and modeling to showcase data identified in desk and field research and compare identified criteria that imply incremental costs and gains. It will seek to calculate the impacts on price; in production volumes; in market access and competitiveness; the resilience of the product/service to crises and price drops; at the level of local economic development, identifying causal mechanisms and success factors.

The fellow will be based at the Economics, Administration and Sociology Department of the University of São Paulo's Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture in Piracicaba, Brazil.

Further info on the vacancy and the project can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g5NP9W_HWnTLLNIq80cPKznz9BjfZVkU/view?usp=sharing

Interested should send their CVs to: edespers@usp.br

This opportunity is open to candidates of any nationality. The selected candidate will receive a Post-Doctoral fellowship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in the amount of R$ 12,000.00 monthly (in force starting August 1st) and a research contingency fund, equivalent to 10% of the annual value of the fellowship which should be spent on items directly related to the research activity.