PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION

This executive summary outlines a 'Production and Protection' (P&P) framework for Brazil, aiming to balance economic growth in agriculture with the conservation of natural resources. The document identifies opportunities to increase agricultural productivity through improvements in finance, technology, land rental markets, cooperatives, and infrastructure, while simultaneously strengthening environmental protections through better monitoring and market-based incentives.

• Brazil can simultaneously increase agricultural production and enhance the protection of natural resources. Productivity gains in agriculture can be achieved without apparent costs to environmental conservation, while protection can be improved by increasing the private cost of clearing native vegetation and using market-based incentives.
• Environmental protection challenges in Brazil include the need to address small-scale deforestation in the Amazon, enforce the Forest Code on private lands via the Rural Environmental Registry, and deter deforestation in non-Amazonian biomes, particularly the Cerrado, where incentive-based policies like payment for environmental services are needed.
• Agricultural productivity in Brazil varies significantly due to non-geographical factors. While geographical factors explain slightly over one-third of the variation, the remainder is driven by access to finance, technology, rental markets, cooperatives, and infrastructure.
• Access to credit is a major driver of productivity, with approximately 20% of regional productivity variation linked to credit availability. However, access is highly unequal: in 2006, nearly 75% of large-scale crop farmers accessed credit, compared to less than 20% of small-scale producers.
• Brazil's land rental markets are underdeveloped compared to international standards, with less than 5% of agricultural land under lease or partnership in 2006, whereas rates exceed 35% in Europe and 65% in the United States. Active rental markets are associated with higher productivity and the conversion of low-productivity pasture to high-productivity cropland.
• Poor infrastructure significantly hinders Brazilian agricultural productivity. The country's storage capacity is 80% of the total harvest, which is below the Food and Agriculture Organization's recommended 120%. Additionally, transporting a ton of soybean to export is nearly three times more expensive than in the United States.
• The implementation of a P&P strategy requires two foundational elements: the regular monitoring of representative land-use areas to identify efficiency gains and the creation of a public-private consortium to steer policy and implement experiments.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2013). PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Production-and-Protection-A-First-Look-at-Key-Challenges-in-Brazil-executive-summary.pdf

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION. 2013. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Production-and-Protection-A-First-Look-at-Key-Challenges-in-Brazil-executive-summary.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2013production, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2013}, month = dec, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Production-and-Protection-A-First-Look-at-Key-Challenges-in-Brazil-executive-summary.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }