Protecting the Amazon forest and reducing global warming via agricultural intensification

Marin, Fábio Ricardo; Zanon, Alencar Júnior; Monzón, Juan Pablo; Andrade, José F.; Silva, Evandro H. F. M.; Richter, Gean Leonardo; Antolin, Luís Alberto Silva; Ribeiro, Bruna San Martin Rolim; Ribas, Giovana Ghisleni; Battisti, Rafael; Heinemann, A. B.; Grassini, Patricio

doi:10.1038/s41893-022-00968-8

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“…A 2008 policy, for instance, that tied the provision of credit to proof of compliance with environmental legislation reduced deforestation substantially (Assunção et al 2020). This type of incentive facilitates agricultural intensification, which can be an important deforestation intervention itself (Marin et al 2022), and reduces the burden on enforcement. Positive incentives are not a panacea and must be designed carefully, but they can help create a more resilient and effective system of forest protection.…”

Section: Discussion and Ways Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade

Kuschnig

Vashold

Soterroni

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Brazil once set the example for curtailing deforestation with command and control policies, but, in the last decade, these interventions have gone astray. Environmental research and policy today are largely informed by the earlier successes of deforestation interventions, but not their recent failures. Here, we investigate the resilience of deforestation interventions. We discuss how the recent trend reversal in Brazil came to be, and what its implications for the design of future policies are. We use newly compiled information on environmental fines in an econometric model to show that the enforcement of environmental policy has become ineffective in recent years. Our results add empirical evidence to earlier studies documenting the erosion of the institutions responsible for forest protection, and highlight the considerable deforestation impacts of this erosion. Future efforts for sustainable forest protection should be aimed at strengthening institutions, spreading responsibilities, and redistributing the common value of forests via incentive-based systems.

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Section: Discussion and Ways Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade

Kuschnig

Vashold

Soterroni

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…van Loo et al (2020) find a higher WTP for pea‐based MS than for cultured meat and yeast‐based MS in a choice‐experiment. Our study based on scanner data also shows a high market valuation for pea‐based MS. More specifically, those products receive higher prices than soybean‐based MS. One reason could be that consumers associate soy for MS with soy for animal feed produced in deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest (Marin et al, 2022), while some pea‐based products are evaluated as more environmentally friendly (Hartmann et al, 2022). Peas could also induce a price premium because being perceived as regionally grown.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Meat and meat substitutes—A hedonic‐pricing model for the German market

Petersen,

Tatic,

Hartmann

et al. 2023

J of Agr & App Econ Assoc

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In this study, a hedonic pricing model with a stochastic frontier is applied to a sample of 183,717 observations of product sales of sausages in Germany to determine the valuation of attributes in the market. The average price of sausages is 1.14€/100 g, with meat substitutes valued at 1.53€/100 g and meat sausages at 1.01€/100 g. Our results show that credence attributes can induce a price premium, but that the effect strongly depends on the type of attribute. This may be important for deriving marketing strategies, as uniform measures may not be effective for both markets.

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“…Soya bean expansion, particularly in Mato Grosso, has intensified, with double-cropping alongside crops like corn becoming common. This shift is driven by both soybean growers and cattle ranchers, often involving the purchase of land from ranchers who have previously cleared and grazed it, pushing deeper into the rainforest (Neill et al 2013;Marin et al 2022). The Amazon rainforest plays a vital role in maintaining global biodiversity, rainfall recycling, water supply for Brazilian agriculture, and carbon storage.…”

Section: Amazon Rainforest Soya Bean Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Bioeconomy Assessment: Coordinated Efforts of Policy, Innovation, and Sustainability for a Greener Future

2024

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The bioeconomy, also known as the bio-based economy, refers to the economic activity involving the use of biotechnology and biomass in producing goods, services or energy. It aims to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels in the energy and industrial sectors. Bioeconomy has been widely accepted by different countries and regions as a critical strategy for coping with fossil fuel shortage and climate change, among other environmental problems. Bioeconomy mainly utilizes biomass resources to generate bio-based products. In terms of biomass resources, they can be divided into three generations. The first-generation biomass resources, primarily edible biomass materials, present an issue of “competing with people for food/land.” The second-generation biomass resources are derived from non-edible sources, mainly lignocellulosic materials, which are accompanied by immature processes for their efficient conversion into valuable biofuels and other high-value bioproducts. Thirdgeneration biomass resources represent an emerging frontier in the world of sustainable bioenergy and bioproducts, primarily consisting of algae or rapidly synthesized biomass achieved through advanced cell engineering techniques. This report focuses on bioenergy, bio-based chemicals, bio-based plastics and bio-based macromolecular materials (textiles and paper) in technical conversion, highlighting the resources, dominating technical routes, challenges and prospects.

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Protecting the Amazon forest and reducing global warming via agricultural intensification

Cited by 44 publications

References 55 publications

Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade

Eroding resilience of deforestation interventions—evidence from Brazil’s lost decade

Meat and meat substitutes—A hedonic‐pricing model for the German market

Global Bioeconomy Assessment: Coordinated Efforts of Policy, Innovation, and Sustainability for a Greener Future

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