PECUÁRIA MAIS PRODUTIVA PARA O BRASIL

The document analyzes the inverse correlation between the size of pasture areas and livestock productivity in Brazil. It argues that low productivity is driven by land-use inefficiencies and economic incentives, such as low land costs relative to capital. The authors suggest that combating illegal deforestation, reducing agricultural modernization bottlenecks, and improving credit access can incentivize the transition to more intensive livestock production or high-productivity agriculture, thereby reducing pressure on the Amazon and Cerrado biomes.

• There is a significant negative correlation between livestock productivity and the proportion of a farm dedicated to pasture; for a typical municipality, halving the area used for pasture leads to a 20% increase in livestock revenue per hectare and an increase of 0.25 head of cattle per hectare.
• The cost of land is a primary driver of the inverse relationship between pasture size and productivity; higher land prices are associated with smaller pasture areas and higher productivity, explaining at least one-third of this negative correlation.
• Improving land-use management alone could double livestock productivity, and combining these improvements with more efficient cattle management (breeding and feeding) could increase productivity by 2.5 times.
• Livestock productivity growth in Brazil slowed significantly, increasing by only 6.5% between 2006 and 2017, compared to a 27.8% increase between 1995 and 2006, with a particularly concerning decline in the number of cattle per hectare in the Amazon over the last eleven years.
• Combating illegal deforestation and land grabbing (grilagem) creates incentives for ranchers to improve productivity or migrate to agriculture by removing the artificial lowering of land prices that encourages extensive, low-productivity ranching.
• Reducing bottlenecks to agricultural modernization (such as transport costs and poor storage) and improving access to credit can drive the conversion of unproductive pastures into high-productivity cropland or more capital-intensive livestock systems.

APA

ASSUNÇÃO, J., & BRAGANÇA, A. (2019). PECUÁRIA MAIS PRODUTIVA PARA O BRASIL. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WhitePaper_Pecuaria_PT_112019_final-2.pdf

Chicago

ASSUNÇÃO, JULIANO, and ARTHUR BRAGANÇA. PECUÁRIA MAIS PRODUTIVA PARA O BRASIL. Climate Policy Initiative, 2019. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WhitePaper_Pecuaria_PT_112019_final-2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuno2019pecuria, author = {ASSUNÇÃO, JULIANO and BRAGANÇA, ARTHUR}, title = {{PECUÁRIA MAIS PRODUTIVA PARA O BRASIL}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2019}, month = nov, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/WhitePaper_Pecuaria_PT_112019_final-2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }