| Title | Arresting Deforestation and Resource Degradation in the Forest Margins of the Humid Tropics: Policy, Technology, and Institutional Options for Western Brazil. |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Year of Publication | 1998 |
| Authors | S., Vosti; Witcover, J.; Carpentier, C. |
| ContactAuthor | asb@cgiar.org |
| Pagination | 82 |
| Date Published | March 1998 |
| Institution | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| City | Washington, DC. |
| Keywords | defoerstation, Farmers, forest clearing, land use, profits |
| Abstract | Small-scale farmers (the focus of this report) were responsible for much of the most recent wave of forest clearing — a process that cannot be halted by legal prohibitions alone. Three key questions emerge: 1) how much do small-scale farmers benefit from deforestation, and do these private benefits outweigh the social costs? 2) are their post-deforestation land uses sustainable, that is, do they continue to bring in profits while leaving some forest intact on farm, and if not, can they be made to be? 3) what policies in addition to outright prohibitions might be effective in further slowing deforestation by smallholders and making subsequent land use more sustainable? This IDB-sponsored research project addressed these and other issues directly in the western Brazilian Amazon, and arrived at the following conclusions that are detailed in the attached report. |
| URL | http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/Vosti_1998_FinalASBBrazilReport_to_IDB.pdf |
