Centre-West region

See also: Centre-West Region

English

Proper noun

the Centre-West Region

  1. Commonwealth spelling of Center-West Region.
    • 1999 June, S.M. Teixeira, J.N. Landers, “Technology Transfer for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Latin America/Brazil”, in Technology Assessment and Transfer towards Sustainable Development, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Accra, Ghana: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Africa, Accra, Ghana. […] Advent Press, pages 378–379:
      In South Brazil, in activities such as poultry, pigs and tobacco, this integration is considerable (BRUNDENBURG, 1995). Their financial success, rather than their socio-economic relevance has been the motive for expansion of intensive livestock production to the Centre-West region, to exploit the comparative advantages of cheaper feed grains, larger units and better animal performance that is found in the wet-dry tropics.
    • 2010, Richard L[awrence] Ottinger, Victor M. Tafur, “Legal frameworks for emerging technologies: Bioenergy”, in David Leary, Balakrishna Pisupati, editors, The Future of International Environmental Law, Tokyo; New York, N.Y.; Paris: United Nations University Press, →ISBN, part III (New emerging issues for international environmental law), page 258:
      Brazil has sixty-five biodiesel plants, thirty of which have the Social Seal. However, the majority of biodiesel production plants are being installed in the Centre-West region, characterized by mechanized farming of grains, mostly soybean.
    • 2013, “Brazil: Migration, Trade”, in Collins School World Atlas, 3rd edition, Glasgow: Collins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 67:
      Since 2001, some of the poorer Northeast states have had positive migration flows due to a combination of urban congestion in the main cities, as well as new investments in Northeast Brazil. Main grain producing regions of Brazil in the Centre-West region are also attracting population.
    • 2024, Sol Garson, Kleber Castro, “Brazil”, in Nico Steytler, editor, The Forum of Federations Handbook on Local Government in Federal Systems, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 121:
      Brasília, the Federal District and capital of the country is located in the Centre-West region.
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