PECUÁRIA MAIS PRODUTIVA PARA O BRASIL

This white paper by the Climate Policy Initiative analyzes the relationship between livestock productivity and pasture area in Brazil. It argues that increasing productivity is essential to grow meat production without further deforestation in the Amazon and Cerrado, identifying a negative correlation where smaller pasture proportions often relate to higher productivity.

• There is a significant negative correlation between livestock productivity and the proportion of farm area dedicated to pastures. In a typical municipality, reducing the area used for pastures by half leads to a 20% increase in livestock revenue per hectare and an increase of 0.25 heads of cattle per hectare.
• The cost of land is a primary driver of the inverse relationship between pasture size and productivity. Higher land prices correlate with smaller pasture areas and higher productivity, explaining at least one-third of the negative correlation.
• Improving land use management alone could double livestock productivity, and combining this with more efficient cattle management (breeding and feeding) could increase productivity by 2.5 times.
• Livestock productivity growth in Brazil has slowed significantly, with the number of cattle per hectare increasing by only 6.5% between 2006 and 2017, compared to a 27.8% increase between 1995 and 2006. This decline is particularly concerning in the Amazon, where cattle per hectare has decreased over the last eleven years.
• The report recommends three policy levers to increase productivity without inducing new deforestation: combating illegal deforestation and land grabbing to normalize land markets, reducing infrastructure bottlenecks (transport, storage, electricity) to encourage the conversion of low-productivity pastures to high-productivity crops, and improving access to credit to lower the cost of capital relative to land.
• Pastures currently cover 220 million hectares in Brazil, and the expansion of this activity is the primary driver of deforestation in both the Amazon and the Cerrado.

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} }