Loureiro, Paulo R. A.; Sachsida, Adolfo; Mendonça, … - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2010
This paper studies the dynamics of land-use in the Brazilian Amazon using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR …-and-burn agriculture, a common practice in the Amazon; (2) Contrary to other studies we do not find evidence that cattle ranching is the …) it seems that if not for all the Amazon Basin, at least in this cluster, cattle ranching and cropping could be …