Opportunities and challenges to the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil, 1970-2005

Eustaquio Reis
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Eustaquio Reis: IPEA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Economia, 2017, vol. 17, issue 1, 18_39

Abstract: The paper provides historical and analytical perspectives for the assessment of the challenges and opportunities of cattle raising activities in the transition toward a low-carbon agriculture in Brazil. It is organized as follows. The first section poses the problem. The second presents long run historical perspectives on the development of cattle raising in Brazil. The third section analyzes the patterns of growth of cattle raising in Brazil based upon municipal panel data of Agricultural Census from 1975 to 2006. The fourth section uses a framework analogous to Hayami and Ruttan (1985) to estimate growth convergence equations for major aspects of cattle raising activities, namely the stocking ratio, the specialization in cattle and farm expansion. The report concludes with a discussion of policy options for a transition toward sustainable cattle raising in Brazil

Keywords: Panel data; Arrellano-Bond; Agricultural economics; Land use; Cattle ranching; Deforestation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 Q15 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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