Land-Tenure Issues as Factors in Environmental Destruction in Brazilian Amazonia: The Case of Southern Para
By Philip Martin Fearnside. 2001
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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Increasing world consumption of beef as a driver of regional and global change: A call for policy action based on evidence from Queensland (Australia), Colombia and Brazil (2009, background): “Industrial soybean farming is growing rapidly, with soy farmers buying cattle ranches and converting them to soy fields, displacing the ranchers and pushing them further into the forest frontier (Fearnside, 2001b).”
- Odonata (Insecta) as a tool for the biomonitoring of environmental quality (2017, background): “Following this peak in logging, land was converted to cattle ranching and cash crop farming, activities that now predominate the local landscape (Fearnside, 2001; Pezzuti and Silva, 2009).”
- Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits? (2011, background): “Together with weak institutions and gaps in governance of forest resources and the 13 protection of indigenous peoples’ rights, these policies contributed significantly to deforestation (Fearnside 2001).”
- Relationship between openness to trade and deforestation: : Empirical evidence from the Brazilian Amazon (2016, background): “In fact, farmers have an incentive to clear large parts of virgin forest; otherwise, they would lose their land to expropriation or to invasion (Fearnside, 2001).”
- Crossing spatial analyses and livestock economics to understand deforestation processes in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Sao Felix do Xingu in South Para (2002, background): “For many years, ranchers have considered themselves to be obliged to clear forest to guarantee their tenure because any landowner who did not clear would lose the land either to expropriation or invasion (Fearnside, 2001).”
- Land policies for growth and poverty reduction (2003, background): “Moreover, individuals targeted to benefit from these programs were often the politically most vocal and well connected rather than those with the best ability to make productive use of the land or the most deserving poor (Alston, Libecap, and Mueller 2000; Deininger and Gonzalez 2002; Fearnside 2001”