Debt Peonage and Over-Deforestation in the Amazon Frontier of Brazil
| dc.creator | de Almeida, Anna Luiza Ozorio | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T19:20:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:50:03Z | |
| dc.description | This paper proposes that under the conditions typical of the Amazon frontier of Brazilabsence of a wage labour market and abundant supply of land-farm-family labour is a positive function of debt. This labour supply response, known as "debt peonage," provides for indirect management of farm labour by local merchants via the crop lien mechanism. A microeconomic model of the family farm shows that debt-labour leads to labour-intensive farming but land-extensive farming leads to over-deforestation. Correct colonization policy should then provide for market structures that reduce indebtedness and deforestation. This would also reduce the environmental consequences of settlement in the Amazon. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.197891 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197891/files/agecon-occpapers-1992-041_1_.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197891 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/603096 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197891 | |
| dc.title | Debt Peonage and Over-Deforestation in the Amazon Frontier of Brazil | |
| dc.type | Text |