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Dynamics of the agricultural frontier in the Amazon and savannas of Brazil: analyzing the impact of policy and technology

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 In: Environmental Modeling and AssessmentSummary: While many government policies stimulating deforestation have been reversed, private sector lobbies for uncontrolled logging and soybean export corridors threaten the Amazon. Under a favorable scenario (macroeconomic stabilizaton, controlled logging and road building, sustainable technologies, global environmental markets) reconversion of natural habitat could be 30 percent lower than under unfavorable policies and technologies, without sacrificing production. (RA)
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While many government policies stimulating deforestation have been reversed, private sector lobbies for uncontrolled logging and soybean export corridors threaten the Amazon. Under a favorable scenario (macroeconomic stabilizaton, controlled logging and road building, sustainable technologies, global environmental markets) reconversion of natural habitat could be 30 percent lower than under unfavorable policies and technologies, without sacrificing production. (RA) eng

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