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 …

expansion of both cattle herding and soybean agriculture. These economic activities in Mato Grosso are described as part of a … to their opposition to commodity agriculture, environmentalist organizations have become the target of hostility from … nationalist and pro-development groups who see them as being against development, and thus anti Brazil. Passages from field …

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 …