Mertens, B.; Poccard-Chapuis, R.; Piketty, M.G.; … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 3
The Amazon is the largest tropical forest area on Earth, and has been undergoing rapid deforestation for the last four decades. In the Brazilian Amazon, large-scale pasture for cattle ranching and soybean production are the main land uses, leading to a yearly deforestation rate of 0.5%. These...