<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>13</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Faminow, M.D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vosti, S.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">asb@cgiar.org</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Livestock-deforestation links: Policy issues in the Western Brazilian Amazon.</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cattle production</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Climate Change</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Deforestation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental impact</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">environmental sustainability</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Livestock</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">production policy</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.fao.org/WAIRDOCS/LEAD/X6139E/X6139E00.HTM</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cattle production in the Brazilian Amazon has ignited one of the most visible and vocal environmental debates of the past decade, amid fears that the Amazon could swiftly disappear unless there was rapid change in attitudes and policies. The high rates of deforestation have been linked to environmental problems ranging from localized degradation of land through to global implications such as climate change. Although there are quite a few land uses in the Amazon, the predominance of pasture has drawn the ire of many environmentalists who say that cattle production is a bad deal; that the destruction of the largest remaining tropical rain forest to produce beef is not warranted by low productivity and questionable sustainability.

In the case of the Amazon, deforestation itself is often taken as prima facie evidence of poor land use, partly from the viewpoint that preservation of tropical forest is fundamental to the prevention of global climate change but also from a feeling that any agricultural use of the Amazon is doomed to eventual failure (Fearnside, 1997). A growing literature tries to identify the external and internal drivers of deforestation, with most attention focused on the role played by external factors such as regional development subsidies and macroeconomic policies. However, less well recognized is that production systems themselves might be important factors in forest clearing. In this paper we try to emphasize both internal and external drivers. We do not accept the notion that deforestation itself is, prima facie, necessarily bad because of the role that agricultural production can play in economic growth and poverty alleviation, and the potential for production-system modifications that are environmentally-friendly.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>