Vera-Diaz, Maria del Carmen; Kaufmann, Robert K.; … - In: Ecological Economics 65 (2008) 2, pp. 420-431
Soybean production is one of the main economic forces driving the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Amazon. To assess the potential for expansion we estimate a model of soybean yield that integrates the major climatic, edaphic, and economic determinants in the Amazon Basin....