The role of accessibility for land use and land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon

Schielein, Johannes; Frey, Gabriel Ponzoni; Miranda, Javier; Souza, Rodrigo Antônio de; Boerner, Jan; Henderson, James M.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102419

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“…7. The farm's accessibility, where we distinguish between farms that have road connection by tarred or dirt road and those that do not (see the motivating example in Figure 3): This has an influence on the farm's production costs and market access, but also environmental performance, because accessibility is an important driver of land use and land cover change (Schielein et al 2021).…”

Section: Variable Selectionmentioning

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Understanding the Heterogeneity of Swiss Alpine Summer Farms for Tailored Agricultural Policies: A Typology

Meyer,

Gazzarin,

Jan

et al. 2024

Mountain Research and Development

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Section: Variable Selectionmentioning

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Understanding the Heterogeneity of Swiss Alpine Summer Farms for Tailored Agricultural Policies: A Typology

Meyer,

Gazzarin,

Jan

et al. 2024

Mountain Research and Development

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“…Livestock is the most important land use in the Amazon, appearing in all regions. At the same time, agriculture is concentrated in the southern region of the biome (Figure 5-Amazon), where a set of infrastructure, accessibility, market, and climatic conditions contribute to its development [65,[71][72][73]. Azevedo Junior et al [65] observed that the supply chain, logistics, technology, labor, knowledge, and capital are uneven between regions of the Amazon biome, leading to the concentration of agriculture in strategic locations.…”

Section: Land Use and Land Cover 411 Amazon Biomementioning

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Land Use, Land Cover Change and Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture and Livestock in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil

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The Amazon and the Atlantic Forest are Brazilian biomes that suffered an intense land use and land cover change, marked by the loss of native forest and expansion of agriculture and livestock. This article aims to analyze land use and land cover change history and to propose a sustainable alternative for agriculture and livestock as an opportunity for rural development in these biomes. The statistics of the platform from the Annual Mapping Project for Land Use and Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas) were used in an annual historical series from 1985 to 2020. The analysis of land use and land cover changes indicates that the Amazon native forest was reduced by 44.53 million hectares (Mha), while pasture, agriculture and planted forest increased by 38.10, 6.06 and 0.26 Mha, respectively, over the 35 years (1985 to 2020). In the Atlantic Forest, for the same period, forest and pasture reduced by 0.99 and 11.53 Mha, respectively, while agriculture expanded by 8.06 Mha and planted forest by 2.99 Mha. Sustainable land use strategies, such as the Integration Crop-Livestock-Forest (ICLF), can support the increase in agricultural production while recovering and preserving the environment. Policies and programs should consider regional particularities and barriers for more significant adoption of this strategy.

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“…The degree of access to market can help account for some of the main differences in the livelihoods and income generating portfolios of the three communities (Table 1) [57,58]. It was the combination of abundant Brazil nut reserves and a strategic proximity to the local town and market that led to the migration of many rubber tapping families into community A in the 1990s, and to an internal decision to parcel out the land into a series of allotments that included a formal prohibition of clearing forests for pasture, for instance.…”

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Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon

Ubiali

Alexiades

2022

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This article examines access to an economically important forest product (Brazil nuts) and its relationship with livelihood strategies in the Cazumbá–Iracema Extractive Reserve (CIER), Acre, Brazil. The objective is twofold: (i) to clarify how social mechanisms regulating access to Brazil nuts operate and (ii) to analyse the relationship between differential access to Brazil nuts and livelihood diversification in terms of cash income. For this, we conducted 55 semi-structured interviews with household heads in three rubber tapper (seringueiro) communities. Our findings indicate that Brazil nuts are important to seringueiro livelihoods, although both access to Brazil nuts and livelihood strategies are highly variable between households and communities. Limited access to Brazil nuts is partly overcome through informal arrangements and investment in wage labour, swidden agriculture, and cattle raising, as part of highly diversified livelihood portfolios. However, restrictions to agriculture and cattle raising generate considerable tensions between many seringueiros and environmental managers. We highlight the importance of viewing livelihood diversification and adaptability as important components of the long-term viability of the extractive reserve model, particularly in the context of the growing uncertainties and risks associated with accelerating climate and socio-environmental change as well as amidst ongoing political dynamics in Brazil.

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The role of accessibility for land use and land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon

Cited by 12 publications

References 66 publications

Understanding the Heterogeneity of Swiss Alpine Summer Farms for Tailored Agricultural Policies: A Typology

Understanding the Heterogeneity of Swiss Alpine Summer Farms for Tailored Agricultural Policies: A Typology

Land Use, Land Cover Change and Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture and Livestock in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest in Brazil

Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon

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