STEPHEN ANTHONY VOSTI, INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESERACH INSTITUTECHANTAL LINE CARPENTIER, WALLACE INSTITUTE FOR ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTUREJULIE WITCOVER, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAJUDSON FERREIRA VALENTIM, CPAF-AC.2026-06-30http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/370485This chapter examines three basic questions regarding the use of more intensive livestock technologies by small-scale farmers in the western Brazilian Amazon. Are farmers likely to adopt them? Would it help protect the forest if they did? What would the effects on the farmers’ welfare be? These issues are fundamental, because many people have come to see intensive cattle ranching as a 'win– win' alternative that can simultaneously remove pressure on huge expanses of the Amazon's forests and improve farmers' well-beingp. 113-133.openAccessCultivo a pequeña escalaGanadoTecnología de aplicaciónAmazônia OcidentalWestern AmazonAmazonia OccidentalPequeno ProdutorPecuáriaTecnologia AgrícolaSmall-scale farmingLivestockApplication technologyParte de livro