Author: Susanna B. HechtPublisher: CIAT
ISBN: 8489206139
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Amazonia, Agriculture and Land Use Research
Author: Susanna B. HechtPublisher: CIAT
ISBN: 8489206139
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Amazonia, Agriculture and Land Use Research
Author: Susanna B. HechtPublisher: CIAT
ISBN: 8489206139
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Agricultural Intensification by Smallholders in the Western Brazilian Amazon
Author: Stephen A. VostiPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896291324
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Research site and sample characteristics; Multivariate analysis; A fram-level bioeconomic model.
Geographic Patters of Land Use and Lande Intensity in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Kenneth M. ChomitzPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultura - Brasil
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Nearly 90 percent of agricultural land in the Brazilian Amazon is used for pasture, or has been cleared and left unused. Pasture on average is used with very low productivity. Analysis based on census tract data shows that agricultural conversion of forested areas in the wetter western Amazon would be even less productive, using current technologies.
Amazonia
Author: Nigel J. H. SmithPublisher: United Nations University Press
ISBN: 9789280809060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Amazonia under siege; Environmental threats; Forces of change and societal responses; Forest conservation and management; Silviculture and plantation crops; Agro-forestry and perennial cropping systems; Ranching problems and potential on the uplands; Land-use dynamics on the Amazon flood plain; Trends and opportunities.
Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Author: Andrea CattaneoPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896291308
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.
Characterizing Patterns of Agricultural Land Use in Amazonia by Merging Satellite Imagery and Census Data
Author: Jeffrey A. CardilleGlobal Environmental Change and Land Use
Author: Han HaarmanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401703353
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, systematic research has begun into land-use systems at different scales and interactions, and their links with global cyc1es of water, nitrogen and carbon are being explored. Partly based on research initiated by the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air PolIution and Climate Change (NRP), this book touches upon various land-use and land-cover issues in relation to global environmental change. In addition to the biogeochemical cyc1es, land as a car rier for functions of economic activities, food and fibre production and energy production via biomass are discussed. Crucial in studying land use is human behaviour and man-environment interaction at different scales. Land-use and land-cover change is an important contrlbutor of greenhouse gasses as these activities directly interfere with the carbon, nitrogen and water cyc1es. These cyc1es are connected through numerous feedback loops. The interface of land-use and c1imate is essentially determined by the interaction of man and the environment. Man uses land primarily to produce food; a relatively small area is needed for urban development.
A.I.D. Research and Development Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?
Author: Alexander S. P. PfaffPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Carreteras - Brasil
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description