Agricultural Displacement and Deforestation Leakage in the Brazilian Legal Amazon
Agricultural Displacement and Deforestation Leakage in the Brazilian Legal Amazon
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巴西合法亚马逊地区的农业流离失所和森林砍伐泄漏
作者：
Fanny Moffette;H. Gibbs
旨在减少森林砍伐的环境政策是否会导致现有农业活动的转移？为了阐明这个问题，我们利用差异中的差异战略，以距离为基础的治疗，以研究是否在巴西亚马逊，大豆暂停和零毁林牛协议的两项政策，已取代生产或砍伐森林到邻近地区。我们的研究结果表明，大豆暂停诱导大豆溢出到以前清除的土地，主要是牧场，在监管较少的生态系统。在暂停种植大豆三年后，《养牛协定》的溢出效应导致森林砍伐增加。
Does environmental policy aiming to reduce deforestation induce displacement of existing agricultural activities? To shed light on this question, we exploit a difference-in-differences strategy with a distance-based treatment to examine whether two policies in the Brazilian Amazon, the Soy Moratorium and the Zero-Deforestation Cattle Agreements, have displaced production or deforestation into neighboring regions. Our results show evidence that the Soy Moratorium induced soy spillovers onto previously cleared land—mainly pasture—in the less regulated ecosystem. The spillovers from the Cattle Agreements, three years after the Soy Moratorium, resulted in increased deforestation.