Land speculation and interest rate subsidies as a cause of deforestation: The role of cattle ranching in Costa Rica
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A pivotal function of cattle ranching expansion is not necessarily the production of goods but the spearheading of the frontier through land grabbing, land banking, land price speculation, and its facilitation of other illicit economies.
“Such approaches crucially fail to see that a pivotal function of cattle ranching expansion is not necessarily the production of goods but the spearheading of the frontierthrough land grabbing, land banking, land price speculation, and its facilitation of other illicit economies (Roebeling and Hendrix, 2010;Kröger, 2024).”
From Beyond the “supply chain” framing: Cattle ranching as a vanishing mediator of deforestation and dispossession in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon (2026) · cites this paper as Roebeling and Hendrix, 2010
The unpaginated title in our indexed copy links cattle ranching and land speculation to deforestation in Costa Rica, supporting the speculation aspect of the claim. It does not establish land grabbing, land banking, a role in facilitating illicit economies, or the broader claim that ranching’s pivotal function is to spearhead the frontier rather than produce goods. (LLM, conf=0.70)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredCattle ranching is a vehicle for land price speculation.
“land price speculation (Roebeling and Hendrix, 2010;Miranda et al., 2019)”
From Beyond the “supply chain” framing: Cattle ranching as a vanishing mediator of deforestation and dispossession in the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon (2026) · cites this paper as Roebeling and Hendrix, 2010
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- Authors
- Roebeling, P. C., & Hendrix, E. M. T.
- Affiliations
- Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (PT)
- Universidad de Málaga (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Roebeling, Peter C.
- Venue
- Land Use Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-04
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 489-496
- ISSN
- 0264-8377 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2024306807
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 1.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- research.wur.nl
- Locations
- Land Use Policy (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wageningen University and Research
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Agricultural economics and policies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
- Keywords
- land speculation, interest rate subsidies, deforestation, cattle ranching, land prices, land investment, geometric Brownian motion, adjustment costs, farm size, agricultural frontier, Costa Rica
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