Dynamics of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon and savannas of Brazil: analyzing the impact of policy and technology
While many goverment policies stimulating deforestation have been reserved, private sector lobbies for uncontrolled logging and soybean export corridors threaten the Amazon. Under a favorable scenario (macroeconomic stabilization, controlled logging and road building, sustainable technologies, global environmental markets) reconversion of natural habitat could be 30% lower than under unfavorable policies and technologies, without sacrificing production
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| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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1998
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| Subjects: | agriculture, savannas, policies, technology, environmental degradation, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/17905 https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/391 |
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| Summary: | While many goverment policies stimulating deforestation have been reserved, private sector lobbies for uncontrolled logging and soybean export corridors threaten the Amazon. Under a favorable scenario (macroeconomic stabilization, controlled logging and road building, sustainable technologies, global environmental markets) reconversion of natural habitat could be 30% lower than under unfavorable policies and technologies, without sacrificing production |
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