Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia

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dc.creatorKaimowitz, D.
dc.creatorSmith, J.
dc.date2001
dc.date2012-06-04T09:06:13Z
dc.date2012-06-04T09:06:13Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:13:03Z
dc.descriptionThis paper looks at the impact of the introduction of new soybean technologies on the clearing of natural vegetation (forest and savanna) in southern Brazil, the Brazilian Cerrado, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The paper looks at how technological change interacted with other government policies and examines general equilibrium effects on product and labor markets as well as the direct on-farm effects. In southern Brazil new technologies made large-scale mechanized soybean production more profitable. This led to the displacement of many small farmers that moved to the Brazilian Amazon and clearing forests for agriculture. It may have also encouraged deforestation in southern Brasil itself. In the Brazilian Cerrado and Santa Cruz Bolivia the new technologies made it possible to plant soybeans in areas where it had previously not been economically feasible. Large areas of forest and other natural vegetation were cleared as a result.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/18226
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/77298
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCAB International
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKaimowitz, D., Smith, J. 2001. Soybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia . In: Angelsen , A., Kaimowitz, D. (eds.). Agricultural technologies and tropical deforestation. :195-211. Wallingford, Oxon, UK, Oxon, UK, CABI Publishing. CABI Publishing.
dc.subjectsoyabeans
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectstate intervention
dc.subjectdeforestation
dc.subjectlabour
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjectimpact
dc.subjectcost benefit analysis
dc.titleSoybean technology and the loss of natural vegetation in Brazil and Bolivia
dc.typeBook Chapter

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