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Outsourcing the dry season : cattle ranchers' responses to weather shocks in the Brazilian Amazon
Skidmore, Marin Elisabeth - In: American journal of agricultural economics 105 (2023) 2, pp. 409-433
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306181
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Poverty dynamics, ecological endowments and land use among smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon
Guedes, Gilvan Ramalho; Antigo, Mariângela Furlan; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011546
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Determinants of technical efficiency in agriculture and cattle ranching : a spatial analysis for the Brazilian Amazon
Igliori, Danilo Camargo (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003390920
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Agricultural Productivity and Forest Conservation : Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Koch, Nicolas - 2018
understood, though evidence is sorely needed given the economic importance of agriculture in Brazil and many other forest …-rich countries. We construct a ten-year panel dataset for agriculture and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2004-2014), and use … two complementary difference-in-difference strategies to estimate the causal effect of one of Brazil's flagship anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932941
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Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Agriculture and Cattle Ranching : A Spatial Analysis for the Brazilian Amazon
Igliori, Danilo Camargo - 2005
The determinants of technical efficiency in agriculture and cattle ranching are closely related with the debate …. This paper aims to identify the socio-economic and environmental determinants of technical efficiency in agriculture and … development. The study is structured in two parts. The first part is concerned with measuring technical efficiency for agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063987
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Modelling the Relationship between Government Policy, Economic Growth, and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Andersen, Lykke Eg - 1998
This paper develops a theoretical as well as an empirical model of deforestation and economic development in a tropical forest economy. The empirical model is estimated using panel data for 316 municipalities in the Brazilian Amazon during the period 1970-1985. The effects of controversial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071572
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Long-Term Conservation Agriculture for Cassava and Maize Cultivation in an Acrisol from Southwestern Brazilian Amazon : Impact on Soil Organic Matter Composition and Concentration
de Aquino, Itauane Oliveira; Dick, Deborah Pinheiro; … - 2022
In the Brazilian Southwestern Amazon, food security agriculture predominates in smallholder farms where cassava … cultivation is conducted under conventional tillage (CT). This study investigated the impact of conservation agriculture on soil C … verified under CT management systems without a change of soil C content. Introduction of agriculture, regardless of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013301132
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Unveiling drivers of deforestation : evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Kuschnig, Nikolas; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Krisztin, Tamás - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133853
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Openness to trade and deforestation at the Brazilian Amazon : a spatial econometric analysis
Faria, Weslem Rodrigues; Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de - 2011
The Brazilian Amazon is a large piece of land that hosts only 12% of Brazilian population. Even this low figure and people mostly living in urban areas, the overexploitation of the forest resources driven by economic activities seems to be out-of-control. In the 1970s, abundant government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539281