Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest

Pereira, Éder Johnson de Area Leão; Ribeiro, Luiz Carlos de Santana; Freitas, Lúcio Flávio da Silva; Pereira, Hernane Borges de Barros

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104491

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“…The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Pereira et al (2020) at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.…”

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“…Considering that livestock has a vital role in deforestation, it is reasonable to question the reason that leads to this finding. Margulis 2003 In exchange for political support from senators and deputies linked to Brazilian agribusiness, the current Government of Brazil proposed some actions that directly benefited the growth of the agricultural sectors, as well as livestock (Pereira et al, 2020). According to Medeiros and Fonseca (2016), a portion of agribusiness operates with financial support for the rural group.…”

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Who is going to save the Brazilian Amazon forest? Reflections on deforestation, wildlife eviction, and stewardship behavior

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Costa

Farias

et al. 2020

Psychology and Marketing

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The Brazilian Amazon deforestation is the context for this article, approached as a crime against humanity and wildlife. Recently, Amazon forest fires have also worried most of the economically developed nations, generating criticism and demanding that the Brazilian Government be more active in preventing fires and deforestation. It is necessary to guarantee the wellbeing and health of millions of animal species that live in this habitat, avoiding their extinctions and encouraging the preservation of the forest and its inhabitants. Agribusiness, together with illegal timber trade, are blamed for most of the deforestation. In this paper, we present and discuss Brazilian Amazon deforestation data, addressing the role of agribusiness as dependent on good environmental governance. We argue how stewardship behavior needs to become a path to stop deforestation and wildlife eviction and we reflect on what marketers in Brazil and the world can do to better protect the Amazon rainforest. We conclude that the Government, companies, and society must be coresponsible for the protection of the Amazon rainforest through conservation transparency, dialogue, environmental awareness, and sustainability in production and consumption practices.

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“…The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Pereira et al (2020) at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.…”

Section: Data Availability Statementsupporting

confidence: 75%

Section: Is Brazilian Agribusiness the Only To Blame?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Who is going to save the Brazilian Amazon forest? Reflections on deforestation, wildlife eviction, and stewardship behavior

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Costa

Farias

et al. 2020

Psychology and Marketing

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“…In the economic sphere, several factors have been reported, such as the development of road infrastructure that enables economic activity [64][65][66][67][68][69], livestock production, mainly beef cattle with the expansion of pastures [70][71][72][73], the increase in monocultures [74][75][76][77], and illegal logging [78][79][80][81][82]. In the political sphere, much research has assessed the effects of government actions on reducing deforestation in the Amazon [22,63,[83][84][85] or industry-led initiatives, for example the soy moratorium [86][87][88][89]. In addition to land tenure insecurity, another set of social factors showed association with deforestation, such as population pressure [90][91][92], low income [93], and land conflicts [94][95][96][97].…”

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Relationship between Land Property Security and Brazilian Amazon Deforestation in the Mato Grosso State during the Period 2013–2018

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This research examines the relations between forest decrease and legal property security in Mato Grosso State, Brazil. The study area encompasses 133,090.4 km2 of the Amazonian biome, belonging to the Brazilian Legal Amazon, located at the arc of deforestation where agriculture and cattle ranching compete with the native vegetation cover. Cadastral monitoring and certification of productive land plots are Brazil’s public policies to implement to tackle these environmental challenges. In this context, we crossed the Land Management System (SIGEF) dataset launched in 2013 from the National Institute for Agrarian Reform and the Amazon Deforestation Monitoring Program (PRODES) dataset from the Brazilian National Institute of Space Research (INPE). The analysis considered the 2013–2018 period with public and private land plots and evaluated the differences in smallholders and large landowners’ deforesting behavior. The results demonstrate that the primacy of certified properties was in private land (94%), with a small portion of the public land (6%). Most properties have <80% forest coverage on certification, corresponding to 85% on private properties and 95% on public properties. This fact is important because environmental legislation in the Amazon region establishes a legal reserve of 80% in forest areas. The results show that the smaller the property, the greater the percentage of proportional deforestation in the certification. In the biennium, considering before and after certification, a proportion of 8% of private properties and 28% of public properties with vegetation cover had deforestation. The results demonstrate the tendency for smaller properties to deforest proportionally more than larger ones. The annual difference series in properties registered in 2015 demonstrates that the highest deforestation occurrence was in the year of certification in private properties and the subsequent year in public properties. The SIGEF system is relatively new, requiring more time to establish a consolidated trend. The combination of property rights and effective compliance with environmental legislation allows the conservation of the forest. However, it is essential to improve inspection. Land ownership inserts the owner into a system of rules to properly use natural resources, constituting a legal instrument to guide human action.

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“…This suggests that it is necessary to go beyond punishments to reduce the impact of the anthropic intervention in this region, incorporating initiatives such as tenure regularization, territorial management, the implementation of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), monitoring and surveillance, financial incentives for sustainable production, improvement of agricultural and livestock practices, and environmental education. However, such actions, mostly depending on federal initiatives, are far from being taken as an anti-environmental agenda has been adopted by the Brazilian Federal Government inaugurated in 2019 [74][75][76].…”

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Assessing Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Direct Influence Zone of the Braço Norte Hydropower Complex, Brazilian Amazonia

Guerrero

Escobar-Silva

Chaves

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Over the decades, hydropower complexes have been built in several hydrographic basins of Brazil including the Amazon region. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of these constructions on the environment and local communities. This work presents a land use and land cover change temporal analysis considering a 33-year period (1985–2018) in the direct influence zone of the Braço Norte Hydropower Complex, Brazilian Amazonia, using the Collection 4.1 level 3 of the freely available MapBiomas dataset. Additionally, we have assessed the Brazilian Amazon large-scale deforestation process acting as a land use and land cover change driver in the study area. Our findings show that the most impacted land cover was forest formation (from 414 km2 to 287 km2, a reduction of 69%), which primarily shifted into pasturelands (increase of 664%, from 40 km2 to 299 km2). The construction of the hydropower complex also triggered indirect impacts such as the presence of urban areas in 2018 and the consequent increased local demand for crops. Together with the ongoing large-scale Amazonian deforestation process, the construction of the complex has intensified changes in the study area as 56.42% of the pixels were changed between 1985 and 2018. This indicates the importance of accurate economic and environmental impact studies for assessing social and environmental consequences of future construction in this unique region. Our results reveal the need for adopting special policies to minimize the impact of these constructions, for example, the creation of Protected Areas and the definition of locally-adjusted parameters for the ecological-economic zoning considering environmental and social circumstances derived from the local actors that depend on the natural environment to subsist such as indigenous peoples, riverine population, and artisanal fishermen.

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Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest

Cited by 92 publications

References 30 publications

Who is going to save the Brazilian Amazon forest? Reflections on deforestation, wildlife eviction, and stewardship behavior

Who is going to save the Brazilian Amazon forest? Reflections on deforestation, wildlife eviction, and stewardship behavior

Relationship between Land Property Security and Brazilian Amazon Deforestation in the Mato Grosso State during the Period 2013–2018

Assessing Land Use and Land Cover Changes in the Direct Influence Zone of the Braço Norte Hydropower Complex, Brazilian Amazonia

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