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Book Synopsis Cattle, Deforestation, and Development in the Amazon by : Merle D. Faminow
Download or read book Cattle, Deforestation, and Development in the Amazon written by Merle D. Faminow and published by Wallingford [England] : CAB International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The large-scale destruction of tropical rain forests and the consequences of the loss of their rich, complex ecosystems is one of the most well-publicised, globally important environmental issues of the late twentieth century. The bulk of the remaining forest is to be found in the Amazon Basin, largely in Brazil and the rapid expansion of cattle ranching has been implicated as the main cause of irreversible deforestation in this part of South America over the last decade. This book brings together and critically assesses the economic, agronomic and environmental evidence for the benefits and costs of cattle ranching in the Amazon region. The ecology of the Amazon rain forest is described, along with methods of economic valuation of forests, agricultural systems in the Amazon, the history and underlying causes of its colonisation and the effects on land use, and the extent of deforestation. This leads on to a more detailed description of the cattle ranching systems employed in the Amazon, their economics and effects on the forest. In conclusion, the potential for sustainable cattle production in the Amazon is discussed. The product of considerable field research in Brazil by the author, this book presents a positive perspective on a highly controversial topic, in a uniquely systematic way and with far-reaching implications. It is an essential purchase for livestock economists, agronomists, foresters and environmentalists with an interest in South American and other tropical regions. It will also be a valuable source for advanced students of agronomy, animal science, agricultural economics and ecology.
Book Synopsis Hoofprints on the Forest by : Douglas R. Shane
Download or read book Hoofprints on the Forest written by Douglas R. Shane and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon by : Sérgio Margulis
Download or read book Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon written by Sérgio Margulis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This title studies the role of cattle ranching its dynamic and profitability in the expansion of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia. It provides a social evaluation of deforestation in this region and presents and compares a number of different scenarios and proposed recommendations.
Book Synopsis Development Or Destruction by : Theodore E. Downing
Download or read book Development Or Destruction written by Theodore E. Downing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of a workshop on the conversion of tropical forest to pasture in Latin America convened in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1988. It examines the dynamics underlying this complex and destructive process and enlisted multiple perspectives in order to identify alternatives.
Book Synopsis Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by : Andrea Cattaneo
Download or read book Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon written by Andrea Cattaneo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon by : Lykke E. Andersen
Download or read book The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon written by Lykke E. Andersen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-disciplinary team of authors analyze the economics of Brazilian deforestation using a large data set of ecological and economic variables. They survey the most up to date work in this field and present their own dynamic and spatial econometric analysis based on municipality level panel data spanning the entire Brazilian Amazon from 1970 to 1996. By observing the dynamics of land use change over such a long period the team is able to provide quantitative estimates of the long-run economic costs and benefits of both land clearing and government policies such as road building. The authors find that some government policies, such as road paving in already highly settled areas, are beneficial both for economic development and for the preservation of forest, while other policies, such as the construction of unpaved roads through virgin areas, stimulate wasteful land uses to the detriment of both economic growth and forest cover.
Book Synopsis Rainforest Cowboys by : Jeffrey Hoelle
Download or read book Rainforest Cowboys written by Jeffrey Hoelle and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening of the Amazon to colonization in the 1970s brought cattle, land conflict, and widespread deforestation. In the remote state of Acre, Brazil, rubber tappers fought against migrant ranchers to preserve the forest they relied on, and in the process, these "forest guardians" showed the world that it was possible to unite forest livelihoods and environmental preservation. Nowadays, many rubber tappers and their children are turning away from the forest-based lifestyle they once sought to protect and are becoming cattle-raisers or even caubois (cowboys). Rainforest Cowboys is the first book to examine the social and cultural forces driving the expansion of Amazonian cattle raising in all of their complexity. Drawing on eighteen months of fieldwork, Jeffrey Hoelle shows how cattle raising is about much more than beef production or deforestation in Acre, even among "carnivorous" environmentalists, vilified ranchers, and urbanites with no land or cattle. He contextualizes the rise of ranching in relation to political economic structures and broader meanings to understand the spread of "cattle culture." This cattle-centered vision of rural life builds on local experiences and influences from across the Americas and even resembles East African cultural practices. Written in a broadly accessible and interdisciplinary style, Rainforest Cowboys is essential reading for a global audience interested in understanding the economic and cultural features of cattle raising, deforestation, and the continuing tensions between conservation and development in the Amazon.
Book Synopsis Land Use Intensification in the Amazon by : Petterson Vale
Download or read book Land Use Intensification in the Amazon written by Petterson Vale and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beyond zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by : Pacheco, P.
Download or read book Beyond zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon written by Pacheco, P. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key messages A governance approach, combining public policy and private initiatives was effective in slowing down deforestation, but was unable to support a transition to more sustainable production systems.New technical intensification models must be identified for low-productivity systems in degraded lands, adapted to the biophysical and sociotechnical conditions of the Amazonian landscapes.Multiple constraints inhibit progress toward sustainable intensification of cattle ranching, and reversing them requires that all such constraints be addressed in a coordinated way.Designing options that work for all stakeholders, and monitoring and verifying progress of territories toward sustainability is essential to support current public policies and private initiatives.
Book Synopsis The Environmental Effect of Cattle Development in the Amazon Basin by : Susanna B. Hecht
Download or read book The Environmental Effect of Cattle Development in the Amazon Basin written by Susanna B. Hecht and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon by : Stephen A. Vosti
Download or read book Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon written by Stephen A. Vosti and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
Book Synopsis Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region by : Dennis J. Mahar
Download or read book Government Policies and Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon Region written by Dennis J. Mahar and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agriculture, Environmental Policy, and Climate by : Marin Skidmore
Download or read book Agriculture, Environmental Policy, and Climate written by Marin Skidmore and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brazilian Amazon exists at the nexus of rapid agricultural and environmental change. Not only is the Amazon the world's largest tropical rainforest, but it is home to 20% of the world's terrestrial species and helps maintain water supply for South America (May et al., 2013). In the last thirty years, 780 thousand square kilometers, or an area larger than Texas, of the Amazon has been lost in Brazil (INPE, 2020). Numerous public and market-based policies have been implemented to reduce deforestation, and rates declined by 84% between 2003 and 2012 through the combination of these efforts (Assuncao et al., 2015). The recent spike in deforestation demonstrates that continued pressure is necessary to maintain this success. Rapid deforestation has also changed the climate; the dry season is becoming longer and more severe in regions with deforestation (Butt et al., 2011; Debortoli et al., 2015; Leite-Filho et al., 2019). From the agricultural perspective, the story of the Amazon is one of success. The region has transformed into an agricultural power house, as its cattle herd expanded by 270% in thirty years (IBGE, 2019), helping Brazil become the world's leading exporter of beef (USDA, 2019). In these papers, I investigate the direct and indirect effects of environmental policy and climate change by studying cattle production in the Amazon. In the first essay, co-authored with Dr. Fanny Moffette and Dr. Holly Gibbs, we examine potential economic benefits of environmental policies, increased agricultural investment and productivity. Two anti-deforestation policies in the Brazilian Amazon are analyzed: the Priority List, which increases the intensity of fines for deforestation, and the G4 Cattle Agreements, which is a market exclusion mechanism. We compare cattle ranchers' optimal behavior under each policy and extract predictions about their impacts in order to determine which agricultural actors are affected and what the expected combined policy effects might be. A spatial database that covers land-use in Brazil from 2004 - 16 combined with a unique dataset of slaughterhouse locations provide sample comparability since we restrict our analysis to municipalities that ever had an exporting slaughterhouse nearby. We use variations in time and exposure levels of the two policies and find that both increased productivity, while the G4 also increased investment. This research reveals both indirect and unexpected benefits of environmental regulation. In the second essay, I investigate a novel method of adaptation to climate change: the supply chain. Cattle production in the Brazilian Amazon is largely pasture-based despite the high level of variation in rainfall between summer and winter. Ranchers there have historically coped with the area's monsoon rainfall patterns by allowing their animals to gain and lose weight with the seasons. Deforestation in the region is increasing the length of the dry season, however, increasing the cost of sustaining an animal through the dry season. Livestock mobility allows ranchers to sell their cattle for fattening prior to the onset of the dry season, rather than investing in drought-resistant techniques themselves. I develop a theoretical model to explain how rainfall expectations affect a rancher's decision to sell cattle for fattening before the onset of the dry season, and then use this to draw testable hypotheses. I then test these hypotheses using industry-wide records of cattle movement between 2008 and 2016, and daily records of municipal-level rainfall. I find that in addition to the long term increase in sales for fattening, more animals are sold for fattening in advance of the dry season when the transition between the rainy and dry seasons is drier than normal, or when the onset of the rainy season was delayed two or three years prior. This result is strongest on large volume properties, conversely I find no evidence of adaptation on the smallest properties. These results demonstrate that, although this form of adaptation is theoretically accessible to all ranchers, owners of vulnerable properties are not yet using the market to cope with a lengthening dry season. The third essay, coauthored with Dr. Holly Gibbs, Dr. Lisa Rausch, Matt Christie, Jacob Munger, Amintas Brandao, Ticiana Amaral, Paulo Barreto, Simon Hall, and Nathalie Walker, quantifies the deforestation that remains in zero-deforestation supply chains and the role of monitoring weaknesses and blind-spots in these Zero-Deforesation Cattle Agreements (CA). While many meatpackers now monitor the farms they buy from directly, they fail to include the large network of indirect supplying farms, such as those where cattle are born and raised in the early parts of the production cycle. Additionally, land ownership is complex in Brazil, with ranchers often owning and managing several properties as a single holding, but current assessments consider only a single property. To better understand these implementation gaps, we use data science techniques to create a novel database based on records from the Animal Transport Guide (GTA) that tracks the movement of cattle between properties and slaughterhouses across the Amazonian states of Mato Grosso and Para. We used our database to quantify how much deforestation occurs outside of current CA monitoring systems. Altogether, we find more than 963,600 hectares of cleared land that are identifiable and monitorable in CA supply chains, but only 13\% of this occurred within the scope of current monitoring. We find twice as much deforestation by indirect suppliers than direct suppliers; ranchers also deforest twice as much on their unmonitored properties compared to their monitored properties. Our results help explain why the CA have failed to reduce total deforestation, even though slaughterhouses have reduced their purchases from direct suppliers with deforestation (Gibbs et al., 2015; Alix-Garcia and Gibbs, 2017).
Book Synopsis Developing Amazonia by : Anthony L. Hall
Download or read book Developing Amazonia written by Anthony L. Hall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Grande Carajas programme, the largest project in the Amazon rainforest, is central to the debate on its future and fate. The social and environmental costs of the programme are examined here.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon by : João S. Campari
Download or read book The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon written by João S. Campari and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the 'perceived wisdom'.
Book Synopsis The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by : Antônio Carlos Sant'Ana Diegues
Download or read book The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon written by Antônio Carlos Sant'Ana Diegues and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Change in the Amazon Basin: Man's impact on forests and rivers by : John Hemming
Download or read book Change in the Amazon Basin: Man's impact on forests and rivers written by John Hemming and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: