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Source Licenses and Terms of Use

Notice: agrobr is licensed under MIT, but the data accessed belongs to its respective sources and is subject to each one's terms. It is the user's responsibility to verify that their use case complies.

Source Table

Source License Commercial Use Classification Terms URL
CEPEA/ESALQ CC BY-NC 4.0 Requires CEPEA authorization nc License
CONAB Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre Gov.br
IBGE/SIDRA Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre SIDRA
NASA POWER CC BY 4.0 Yes (with citation) livre Earthdata Policy
BCB/SICOR Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre BCB OData
ComexStat Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre MDIC
ANDA No public terms; authorization requested (Feb/2026) Awaiting response zona_cinza anda.org.br
ANTAQ Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre Aquaviário Statistics
ANP Diesel Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre ANP
ANTT Pedágio CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) Yes (public data) livre ANTT Open Data
MAPA PSR Public federal government data (CC-BY) Yes (public data) livre SISSER/MAPA
SICAR Public federal government data (CC-BY) Yes (public data) livre CAR
ABIOVE No public terms; authorization requested (Feb/2026) Awaiting response zona_cinza abiove.org.br
ANEC No public terms found; no formal contact Check with the association zona_cinza anec.com.br
USDA PSD U.S. Public Domain Yes (U.S. government) livre Ag Data Commons
UN Comtrade UN public data Yes (public data) livre Comtrade
CFTC COT U.S. Public Domain Yes (U.S. government) livre CFTC Public Reporting
IMEA Restrictive: redistribution prohibited without written authorization No restrito Terms of Use
DERAL Public state government data (PR) Yes (public data) livre SEAB/PR
INMET Public federal government data Yes (public data, token required) livre INMET
Notícias Agrícolas All rights reserved (Law 9.610/98) No restrito
Queimadas/INPE Public federal government data Yes (public data, with citation) livre BDQueimadas
Desmatamento PRODES/DETER Public federal government data Yes (public data, with citation) livre TerraBrasilis
MapBiomas Public data, free with citation Yes (with citation to the project) livre Terms of Use
CONAB Progresso Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre Gov.br
IBGE PPM Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre SIDRA
IBGE Abate Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre SIDRA
IBGE Censo Agro Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre SIDRA
IBGE Censo Agro Histórico Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre SIDRA
IBGE Censo Agro Municipal 1985 Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre IBGE Library
B3 Futuros Agro No public terms for programmatic access Check with B3 zona_cinza B3
CONAB CEASA/PROHORT Public credentials embedded in the frontend, API not officially documented Check with CONAB zona_cinza CONAB Portal
MAPA Agrofit (Pesticides) CC-BY 4.0 Yes livre dados.agricultura.gov.br
ZARC Public federal government data (CC-BY) Yes livre dados.agricultura.gov.br
ANA/SNIRH Public data Yes livre SNIRH
FUNAI Indigenous Lands CC BY-ND 3.0 Yes (with citation, no derivatives) livre geoserver.funai.gov.br
IBAMA Embargoes ODbL (Open Database License) Yes (with citation) livre IBAMA Open Data
ICMBio Federal UCs Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre geoservicos.inde.gov.br
INCRA Quilombolas Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre cmr.funai.gov.br
Lista Suja Freedom of Information Act Yes livre Ministry of Labor and Employment
MapBiomas Alerta Free (citation required) Yes livre MapBiomas Alerta
SFB Public data Yes livre SFB
RNC/CultivarWeb Public federal government data Yes (public data) livre CultivarWeb
EMBRAPA Solos CC BY-NC 3.0 BR Requires EMBRAPA authorization nc GeoInfo
Acervo Fundiário/INCRA Commercial use prohibited (portal) No nc INCRA Certification
Fundação Rio Verde No public terms Check with the foundation zona_cinza fundacaorioverde.com.br
UNICA No public terms; all rights reserved in the footer Check with UNICA zona_cinza unicadata.com.br

Classification Legend

Classification Meaning
livre Public data with no restriction on commercial use. Citing the source is good practice.
nc Non-commercial. Commercial use requires explicit authorization from the holder.
zona_cinza Terms of use not publicly found or ambiguous. Authorization requested.
restrito Redistribution prohibited or conditioned on written authorization.

Per-Source Details

CEPEA/ESALQ

  • License: Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0
  • Summary: Allows non-commercial use with attribution to CEPEA. Commercial use (data resale, integration into paid products, etc.) requires written authorization from CEPEA.
  • Contact: cepea@usp.br
  • EN reference: Non-commercial use of data

IMEA

  • Classification: restrito
  • Terms: "Any non-public file made available by the platform, whether a report or data, is for the user's exclusive use and may not be shared without prior written authorization."
  • Situation: Public API (api1.imea.com.br) without authentication, but the Terms of Use are explicit about prohibiting redistribution. The /v2/mobile/ endpoint is not officially documented.
  • Recommendation: Module kept for direct personal/educational use. Not included in automatic fallback datasets. Users who redistribute data must obtain written authorization from IMEA.

ANDA

  • Classification: zona_cinza
  • Situation: Sector association that publishes fertilizer delivery data. No public terms-of-use page found.
  • Action: Formal authorization requested in February/2026. Awaiting response.

ABIOVE

  • Classification: zona_cinza
  • Situation: Sector association that publishes soybean-complex export data. No public terms-of-use page found.
  • Action: Formal authorization requested in February/2026. Awaiting response.

ANEC

  • Classification: zona_cinza
  • Situation: National Association of Cereal Exporters. Publishes weekly PDF reports of port shipments (soybean, meal, corn, DDGS, sorghum, wheat). No public terms-of-use page found.
  • Decision in agrobr: The module emits a UserWarning on the first call per session alerting the user about the status. Not included in automatic fallback of other datasets. No formal contact established with the association.

Notícias Agrícolas

  • Classification: restrito
  • Situation: Private company (Olivi Produções de Vídeo e Comunicação LTDA) with no public terms of use about republishing quotes. Under Law 9.610/98, the absence of an explicit license implies all rights reserved.
  • Decision in agrobr: Kept temporarily as a technical fallback for CEPEA (works around Cloudflare). Pending deprecation in favor of direct CEPEA access or other primary sources (DERAL, etc.).

B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão)

  • Classification: zona_cinza
  • Situation: Private company that publishes daily futures settlements without authentication or paywall. The data is the official reference for margin calculation (CVM requirement). No terms of use for programmatic access.
  • Data used: Daily settlement prices of agricultural futures (BGI, CCM, ICF, CNL, ETH, SJC, SOY) via the public page + open interest of futures and options via public CSV.
  • Recommendation: Educational/research use. Redistribution in a commercial product should be checked with B3 (marketdata@b3.com.br).

CONAB CEASA/PROHORT

  • Classification: zona_cinza
  • Situation: CONAB is a federal public company. The PROHORT system (wholesale produce prices at CEASAs) uses Pentaho BA Server with credentials embedded in the public frontend (userid=pentaho, password=password). The API is not officially documented but feeds CONAB's public dashboards and mobile app.
  • Data used: Daily prices of 48 products (fruits, vegetables, eggs) at 43 CEASAs in Brazil via the Pentaho CDA REST API.
  • Recommendation: Data of public interest (food prices). Educational/research use. Consult CONAB for commercial redistribution.

UNICA

  • Classification: zona_cinza
  • Situation: Sector association (Sugarcane and Bioenergy Industry Union) that publishes crushing and production statistics via unicadata.com.br and biweekly release reports. No terms-of-use page for data found; the portal footer states "all rights reserved."
  • Data used: Biweekly Center-South crop-tracking report (public PDF) and annual production history by state (XLSX export from the portal, crop years 1980/1981–2020/2021).
  • Decision in agrobr: The module emits a UserWarning on the first call per session. Educational/research use; commercial redistribution should be checked with UNICA.

Brazilian Government Sources

CONAB (including Crop Progress), IBGE, BCB, ComexStat, DERAL, INMET, INPE (Queimadas, PRODES/DETER), ANP, ANTT, SICAR (Brazilian Forest Service), IBAMA, ANA/SNIRH, SFB and Lista Suja (Ministry of Labor) are Brazilian public agencies. MapBiomas is a multi-institutional project that provides open data with mandatory citation. Data produced by public agencies in the exercise of their functions is, as a rule, publicly accessible (Freedom of Information Act — Law 12.527/2011). There is no restriction on commercial use of public government data, but citing the source is recommended.

agrobr embeds IBGE codes for 5571 municipalities (file _municipios_ibge.json) obtained from the IBGE Localities API, which is public and free to use.

NASA POWER

NASA data is provided under CC BY 4.0. Free use (including commercial) with mandatory citation to the NASA POWER Project.

USDA PSD

U.S. government data is in the public domain in the U.S. (17 U.S.C. 105). Free use without copyright restrictions within the U.S. For international use, check whether CC0 was explicitly applied.

UN Comtrade

  • Classification: livre
  • Situation: Public UN data on bilateral international trade. Public API with guest mode (no authentication) and free tier (free registration).
  • Data used: Bilateral trade by HS code (FOB/CIF values, weight, quantity) via REST API v1. Trade mirror compares the reporter's export declarations vs the partner's imports.

CFTC COT

  • Classification: livre
  • Situation: U.S. government data (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) in the public domain in the U.S. (17 U.S.C. 105), published via an open Socrata API without authentication.
  • Data used: Weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report, Disaggregated format, for agricultural contracts on CBOT/CME/ICE (managed money, producer/merchant, swap dealers and other reportables positions).