Balancing agricultural development and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

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作者：

AndreaCattaneo

关键词：

Poverty;  EnvironmentandNaturalResources;  EcosystemServices; 

年份：

2002

总页数：

146

语种：

English

信息来源：

国际粮食政策研究所（IFPRI）

摘要：

Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals. Related Publications Small-scale farms in the western Brazilian Amazon can they benefit from carbon trade? Recently scientists have started to examine how land-uses and land-use technologies can help mitigate carbon emissions. The half million small-scale farmers inhabiting the Amazon frontier sequester large stocks of carbon in their forests and other land…