The Logic of Livestock and Deforestation in Amazonia
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Susanna B. Hecht; The Logic of Livestock and Deforestation in Amazonia: Considering land markets, value of ancillaries, the larger macroeconomic context, and in
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In the context of volatile and uncertain land and currency markets, cattle ranching provides a low cost and low risk way to maintain control over a large land area and take advantage of speculative opportunities, while also building up a savings account via the cattle themselves.
“Second, in the context of volatile and uncertain land and currency markets, cattle ranching provides a low cost and low risk way to maintain control over a large land area and take advantage of speculative opportunities, while also building up a savings account, via the cattle themselves (Hecht 1993, Bowman et al. 2012, Campbell 2015).”
From Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon (2017) · cites this paper as Hecht 1993
Extensive cattle ranching is thought to have low and less seasonal labor demands relative to most systems of crop production, particularly nonmechanized fruit and horticulture production.
“First, extensive cattle ranching is thought to have low and less seasonal labor demands relative to most systems of crop production (Hecht 1993, Muchagata andBrown 2003), particularly nonmechanized fruit and horticulture production (Nepstad et al. 2001).”
From Explaining the persistence of low income and environmentally degrading land uses in the Brazilian Amazon (2017) · cites this paper as Hecht 1993
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- Authors
- Hecht, S. B.
- Corresponding author
- Hecht, Susanna B.
- ORCID
- Hecht, Susanna B.
- Venue
- BioScience
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1993-11
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 687-695
- ISSN
- 0006-3568 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-3244
- OpenAlex
- W2035830634
- Cited by
- 271
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 10.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BioScience (publishedVersion)
- Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) (submittedVersion)
- VTechWorks (Virginia Tech) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Latin American rural development
- Keywords
- ranching, deforestation, Amazon basin, land market, ancillary services, macroeconomic conditions, land use change
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