Land institutions and supply chain configurations as determinants of soybean planted area and yields in Brazil

Garrett, Rachael; Lambin, Éric F.; Naylor, Rosamond L.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.08.002

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“…This result suggests that it is not simply that double cropping is increasing where it got an early start, or where mechanized agriculture has taken hold early, but that the complementary investments in agricultural processing and services are associated with the concentrated expansion of double cropping in clusters of municípios. This story is very consistent with that told by Garrett et al [24], in which all the complementary institutions are key for farmers to make a large profit.…”

Section: Development Of County-level Double Croppingsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Mechanization is only possible on flat lands and soya bean in Mato Grosso grows on very flat lands and at higher elevations [23]. Case study research in Brazil suggests that the organization of markets and the size of the agricultural sector in a community are important drivers of mechanization and soya bean profitability [24]. We combine these previously studied characteristics of areas in a single regression model of the spatial variation in the extent of double cropping in municípios in 2010.…”

Section: Development Of County-level Double Croppingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Socioeconomic development and agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

VanWey

Spera

et al. 2013

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The Brazilian agro-industrial frontier in Mato Grosso rapidly expanded in total area of mechanized production and in total value of production in the last decade. This article shows the spatial pattern of that expansion from 2000 to 2010, based on novel analyses of satellite imagery. It then explores quantitatively and qualitatively the antecedents and correlates of intensification, the expansion of the area under two crops per year. Double cropping is most likely in areas with access to transportation networks, previous profitable agricultural production, and strong existing ties to national and international commodity markets. The article concludes with an exploration of the relationship between double cropping and socioeconomic development, showing that double cropping is strongly correlated with incomes of all residents of a community and with investments in education. We conclude that double cropping in Mato Grosso is very closely tied to multiple indicators of socioeconomic development.

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Section: Development Of County-level Double Croppingsupporting

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Socioeconomic development and agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

VanWey

Spera

et al. 2013

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…A similar argument can be made for transport costs, although attributes related to this variable were not frequently associated with investment destinations in the interviews. Recent research suggests that transport costs are less important than yields for location decisions (41,42). A model of the determinant of land prices, including the effect of deforestation regulations, is discussed in Supporting Information, as are the effects of producer prices and juridical security.…”

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Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

Waroux

Garrett

Heilmayr

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Growing demand for agricultural commodities is causing the expansion of agricultural frontiers onto native vegetation worldwide. Agribusiness companies linking these frontiers to distant spaces of consumption through global commodity chains increasingly make zero-deforestation pledges. However, production and land conversion are often carried out by less-visible local and regional actors that are mobile and responsive to new agricultural expansion opportunities and legal constraints on land use. With more stringent deforestation regulations in some countries, we ask whether their movements are determined partly by differences in land-use policies, resulting in "deforestation havens." We analyze the determinants of investment decisions by agricultural companies in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano, a region that has become the new deforestation "hot spot" in South America. We test whether companies seek out less-regulated forest areas for new agricultural investments. Based on interviews with 82 companies totaling 2.5 Mha of properties, we show that, in addition to proximity to current investments and the availability of cheap forestland, lower deforestation regulations attract investments by companies that tend to clear more forest, mostly cattle ranching operations, and that lower enforcement attracts all companies. Avoiding deforestation leakage requires harmonizing deforestation regulations across regions and commodities and promoting sustainable intensification in cattle ranching.pollution haven | leakage | land-use change | soy | cattle

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“…On the other hand, it has also been noted how agricultural intensification and yield increase may generate the Jevons paradox (14-16), referring to cases in which an improvement in resource use efficiency leads to increased rather than decreased use. Thus, the possibility exists that an increase in agricultural productivity may augment the profitability of land conversion and lead to further agricultural expansion (17)(18)(19)(20).…”

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“…However, different results have also been obtained (18,26,27). In fact it has been argued that better governance improves the bureaucratic efficiency and facilitates land credit and policies that may stimulate agricultural expansion.…”

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Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

Ceddia

Bardsley

Gómez-y-Paloma

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Significance Tropical South America has forest resources of global significance but exhibits a relatively high rate of deforestation. As agricultural expansion remains the most important cause of forest loss and degradation there, it is important to understand its main drivers. In this paper we address two important questions: How do the quality of governance and agricultural intensification combine to impact the spatial expansion of agriculture? Which aspects of governance are more likely to ensure that agricultural intensification allows sparing land for nature? By distinguishing between conventional and environmental dimensions of governance (which includes also the establishment of protected areas), we investigate which of these two aspects, by interacting with the process of agricultural intensification, is likely to promote land sparing.

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Land institutions and supply chain configurations as determinants of soybean planted area and yields in Brazil

Cited by 123 publications

References 59 publications

Socioeconomic development and agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

Socioeconomic development and agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

Land-use policies and corporate investments in agriculture in the Gran Chaco and Chiquitano

Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

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