Actor and frontier types in the Brazilian Amazon: assessing interactions and outcomes associated with frontier expansion
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Due to low initial capital investment and consolidation of soy plantations in productive lands, cattle ranching has gradually become a major economic activity of the frontier settlements.
“Due to low initial capital investment and consolidation of soy plantations in productive lands, cattle ranching has gradually become a major economic activity of the frontier settlements (Gardner, 2009;Pacheco, 2012).”
From Making deforestation risk visible. Discourses on bovine leather supply chain in Brazil (2020) · cites this paper as Pacheco, 2012
Forest clearance for cattle pastures remains the largest direct driver of forest loss on both small and large farms in the region.
“forest clearance for cattle pastures remains the largest direct driver of forest loss on both small and large farms in the region (Pacheco 2012b, INPE 2016b).”
From Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon (2017) · cites this paper as Pacheco 2012b
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- Authors
- Pacheco, P.
- Affiliations
- Center for International Forestry Research (ID)
- Corresponding author
- Pacheco, Pablo
- ORCID
- Pacheco, Pablo
- Venue
- Geoforum
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-06
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 864-874
- ISSN
- 0016-7185 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2048379015
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 17.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Geoforum (publishedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Keywords
- frontier expansion, Brazilian Amazon, smallholder farmers, cattle ranching, pasture expansion, deforestation, forest-to-agricultural land conversion, cattle stocking rate, extensive cattle production, farm income, Human Development Index, land use change
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