Sustainable Agriculture in Brazil: Economic Development and Deforestation (New Horizons in Environmental Economics series)

By Jill Caviglia

Although sustainable agriculture was introduced to the Amazon area in the 1980s, it has been adopted by only a few farmers. This work explores the relationship between the land use choices of small-scale farmers and the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The author analyzes why suatainable agriculture has not been more widely adopted and offers policy prescriptions to address this problem.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840641452
• ISBN13: 9781840641455
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 0.8" x 9.8"