TY - JOUR
T1 - Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon in a national context
T2 - Economics, policy, and practice
AU - Arima, Eugenio Yatsuda
AU - Uhl, Christopher
N1 - Funding Information:
Address correspondence to Christopher Uhl,208Mueller Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: [email protected] We would like to thank the ranchers who provided information about their operations, especially Paulo Acatauassu for the assistance given in Marajo Island. We also thank Harrison Pollack for assistance in the field; Michael Collins, Ana Cristina Barros, Oriana Almeida, and John Brow-der for comments on early drafts; Jeffrey Gerwing for translating the paper from Portuguese to English; Flavio Figueiredo for producing the figures; and the Ford Foundation of Brazil and World Wildlife Fund/UK for financial support.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - The ranching sector is dynamic in the Brazilian Amazon and the approaches and environments used to raise cattle are diverse. Ranching occurs in natural grasslands at the mouth of the Amazon River, floodplains along the Amazon River, and interfluvial (nonflooded) lands where forest has been cut and replaced by pasture. We found that traditional extensive style approaches to ranching are lucrative in all three Amazonian settings. Moreover, returns on ranching investments improved when ranchers specialized in range fattening (upland areas) or calf production (natural grasslands). Returns on ranching also improved when weed‐infested upland pastures were rejuvenated through tilling, planting better adapted forages, and fertilizing. The eastern Amazon offers several advantages over the traditional ranching regions in central and south Brazil. We discuss these advantages and concrete measures aimed at encouraging the intensification of ranching in Amazonia.
AB - The ranching sector is dynamic in the Brazilian Amazon and the approaches and environments used to raise cattle are diverse. Ranching occurs in natural grasslands at the mouth of the Amazon River, floodplains along the Amazon River, and interfluvial (nonflooded) lands where forest has been cut and replaced by pasture. We found that traditional extensive style approaches to ranching are lucrative in all three Amazonian settings. Moreover, returns on ranching investments improved when ranchers specialized in range fattening (upland areas) or calf production (natural grasslands). Returns on ranching also improved when weed‐infested upland pastures were rejuvenated through tilling, planting better adapted forages, and fertilizing. The eastern Amazon offers several advantages over the traditional ranching regions in central and south Brazil. We discuss these advantages and concrete measures aimed at encouraging the intensification of ranching in Amazonia.
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U2 - 10.1080/08941929709381043
DO - 10.1080/08941929709381043
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031405157
SN - 0894-1920
VL - 10
SP - 433
EP - 451
JO - Society and Natural Resources
JF - Society and Natural Resources
IS - 5
ER -