The Deforestation Effects of Trade and Agricultural Productivity in Brazil

Igor Carreira, Francisco Costa and Joao Paulo Pessoa

No hy3np, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science

Abstract: This paper quantifies the relative footprint of trade and agricultural productivity on deforestation in Brazil between 2000 and 2017. Using remote-sensing data, we find that these two phenomena have distinct effects on land use. Greater exposure to new genetically engineered soy seeds is associated with faster deforestation through the expansion of cropland. We find no association between exposure to demand from China and deforestation – although, trade induces conversion of cropland to pastureland. Our results suggest that, when taken together, agriculture productivity gains, and not trade, were the main driver of deforestation and the expansion of the agriculture sector.

Date: 2022-06-27
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev, nep-eff, nep-env and nep-int
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/hy3np

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