Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Second Foreword
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Executive Summary
- 1. Motivation for the Study
- 2. Deforestation and Land Use in Amazonia: Evidence of Large Scale Cattle Ranching
- 3. Different Frontiers and Their Economic and Social Dynamics: Determinants of Amazon Occupation
- 4. The Microeconomics of Beef Cattle Ranching in Amazonia
- 5. Social Costs and Benefits of Deforestation
- 6. Conclusions and Recommendations
- Annex: Socioeconomic Development in Brazilian Amazonia
- References
- TABLES
- Table 1: Evolution of Land Use in Legal Amazonia in Census Years (percent)\
- Table 2: Evolution of Land Use in the cerrado
- Table 3: Property Rights in Legal Amazonia, in Census Years (percent of Geographic Area)
- Table 4: Distribution of the Number and Area Occupied by Establishments in Legal Amazonia, According to Size, Average for 1970-95
- Table 5: Average Size of Deforested Plots, 1996-99 (in percentage terms)
- Table 6: Percentage Contribution of Plot Sizes to Deforestation per State, Average 1997-99
- Table 7: Evolution of the Cattle Herd (1990-2000) (thousand animals)
- Table 8: Evolution of Per Capita Rural Income in the States of Legal Amazonia, 1970-95 (1995 US dollars)
- Table 9: Evolution of Beef Exports and Per Capita Consumption in Brazil (1995-2000)
- Table 10: Size of the Properties and Land Use Adopted in the Panels
- Table 11: Main Animal Production Indices as Indicated by the Panels
- Table 12: Comparison of the Parameters of the Panels with IBGE Data, Municipality of Paragominas (Pará)
- Table 13: Net Income per Hectare from Cattle (in Reals per year)
- Table 14: Internal Rates of Return (IRR) from Rearing, New-breeding and Fattening Systems
- Table 15: Internal Rates of Return (IRR) from New-breeding and Fattening System
- Table 16: Net Returns (in Reals per Hectare)
- Table 17: Absolute Deviations of Crops over the Past 10 Seasons (in January 2002 Reals per Hectare)
- Table 18: Results of Deforestation Tax Simulations
- Table 19: FINAM Fiscal Incentives by Sector (in 2000 US$ million)
- Table 20: Maximum Herd Numbers Benefiting from FINAM Incentives (a)
- Table 21: Rural Credit for Northern Region (in 2000 US$ million)
- Table 22: Summary of the Estimates of the Costs of Deforestation
- Table 23: Value of Renting the Land for Grazing in Legal Amazonia, 1998-2001 (US$ per ha/year)
- Table A1: Evolution of Rural and Urban Populations, GDP and GDP per capita in Legal Amazonia, 1970-95
- FIGURES