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Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?

Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?. Paulo Barreto Senior Researcher at IMAZON. 15% deforested up to 2009. Pastureland ocupies 75% of the area deforested. Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation?. What has driven deforestation?.

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Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?

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  1. Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Paulo Barreto Senior Researcher at IMAZON

  2. 15% deforestedup to 2009

  3. Pastureland ocupies 75% of the area deforested

  4. Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation?

  5. What has driven deforestation?

  6. Policies to occupy the Amazon Infrastructure Colonizationprojects Subsidized rural credit Taxbreaks

  7. Demand for agricultural commodities stimulated deforestation

  8. What has made Brazil more effective against deforestation?

  9. Reduction of leniencywith crimes < 5% of thevalue of fines collected

  10. Drought in Amazon - 2005 280,000 people affected www.panoramio.com/photos/original/4110363.jpg

  11. EE ~40% of BrazilianEmissions of Greenhouse gases Lessthan 1% of GDP

  12. Market risk 2006 – soy moratorium Biofuels and indirect deforestation

  13. New measures against deforestation in 2008

  14. Confiscation of 3,000 cattle inside protected areaJune 2008 • Auctioned after two months

  15. Deforestation declined despite the increase of soy and cattle prices

  16. Will cattle ranching continue to drive deforestation?

  17. Lowdeforestationscenario

  18. Mediumdeforestationscenario

  19. Highdeforestationscenario

  20. Lowdeforestationscenario REDD

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