The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon
| dc.creator | Molina Vale, Petterson | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:04:48Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:57:15Z | |
| dc.description | More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow frontier, speculative behaviour and boom-bust all share the prediction that livestock production will remain largely extensive. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle grew by an astounding 57.5% in the average Amazon municipality. Does rising land productivity of cattle increase deforestation? I use secondary data and spatial econometrics to look for evidence of a positive relation between cattle intensification and deforestation (‘rebound effect’). The reduced-form model I employ is based on a spatial econometric specification by Arima et al. (2011) and uses panel data at the municipality-level. I show that mounting productivity in consolidated areas has been associated with lower deforestation both in frontier and consolidated municipalities. This suggests that any process of out-migration spurred by the rising productivity is insufficient to have a positive impact on deforestation. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.199337 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199337/files/NDL2015-020.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199337 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/604269 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199337 | |
| dc.title | The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon | |
| dc.type | Text |