Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: The case of São Félix do Xingú in South Pará

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dc.contributor.authorMertens, B.en
dc.contributor.authorPoccard-Chapuis, R.en
dc.contributor.authorPiketty, M.-G.en
dc.contributor.authorLacques, A.-E.en
dc.contributor.authorVenturieri, A.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSão Félix do Xingúen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Paráen
dc.coverage.spatialBrazilen
dc.coverage.temporal1986 - 1999en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:21Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:21Zen
dc.date.issued2002en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThe Amazon is the largest tropical forest area on Earth, and has been undergoing rapid deforestation for the last four decades. In the Brazilian Amazon, large-scale pasture for cattle ranching and soybean production are the main land uses, leading to a yearly deforestation rate of 0.5%. These conversions are mostly located in frontier areas distributed along the so-called arc of deforestation. Within this large zone, various land use change processes are interacting through several modes of land valuation and organisation. From several case studies in the State of Pará (Brazil), the current project aims at analysing how landscape dynamics are related to infrastructure development, ecological conditions, zoning policies and to the evolution and the organisation of the production, consumption and marketing chains of livestock products. This paper presents the results for one test site, the region of São Félix do Xingú, South of Pará. This region is the focus of land speculation, cattle expansion, and deforestation. Road construction, investments in electrical energy, financial credit for cattle, and the land reform policies have all fuelled this process. All these factors make this region one of the most dynamic agricultural frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon. The main objective of the paper is to improve our understanding of deforestation processes by crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics studies, and to characterise the role and impact of various natural and anthropic factors in the location and development of the main types of farmers, and their policy implications. [Elsevier Science B.V.]en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier931en
dc.identifier.citationAgricultural Economics 27(3): 269-294en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5150(02)00076-2en
dc.identifier.issn0169-5150en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65827en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rights2002 Elsevier Science B.V.en
dc.subjectTropical zonesen
dc.subjectModelingen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectLivestocken
dc.subjectSpatial modelingen
dc.subjectLivestock commodity chainsen
dc.subjectTypology of farmersen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectBrazilian Amazonen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleCrossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: The case of São Félix do Xingú in South Paráen
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