Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.

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Autor(a) principal: MARTHA JUNIOR, G. B.
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: ALVES, E. R. de A., CONTINI, E.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/956188
Resumo: Increased food production can be achieved by incorporating more land into the productive process, by increasing productivity in already opened areas or by a combination of both strategies. By allowing a fraction of current pasture area to accommodate the expansion of food and biofuel crops intensification of existing pastoral systems is a strategy to avoid further loss of native vegetation. However, there is a common misperception that the path of growth of the Brazilian beef production has been primarily based on the expansion of extensive pastures. Empirical evidence presented in this article shows that whilst this was the case for the 1950?1975 period, the pattern of cattle production in Brazil has changed profoundly since then. During the 1950?2006 period productivity gains explained 79% of the growth in beef production in Brazil and supported a land-saving effect of 525 million hectares. Therefore, without this land-saving effect an additional pasture area that is 25% higher than the Amazon biome in Brazil would be needed to meet current levels of Brazilian beef production.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
title Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
spellingShingle Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
MARTHA JUNIOR, G. B.
Increased food production
Perda de vegetação nativa
title_short Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
title_full Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
title_fullStr Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
title_full_unstemmed Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
title_sort Land-saving approaches and beef production growth in Brazil.
author MARTHA JUNIOR, G. B.
author_facet MARTHA JUNIOR, G. B.
ALVES, E. R. de A.
CONTINI, E.
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CONTINI, E.
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv ELISEU ROBERTO DE ANDRADE ALVES, DE-PR.
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv MARTHA JUNIOR, G. B.
ALVES, E. R. de A.
CONTINI, E.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Increased food production
Perda de vegetação nativa
topic Increased food production
Perda de vegetação nativa
description Increased food production can be achieved by incorporating more land into the productive process, by increasing productivity in already opened areas or by a combination of both strategies. By allowing a fraction of current pasture area to accommodate the expansion of food and biofuel crops intensification of existing pastoral systems is a strategy to avoid further loss of native vegetation. However, there is a common misperception that the path of growth of the Brazilian beef production has been primarily based on the expansion of extensive pastures. Empirical evidence presented in this article shows that whilst this was the case for the 1950?1975 period, the pattern of cattle production in Brazil has changed profoundly since then. During the 1950?2006 period productivity gains explained 79% of the growth in beef production in Brazil and supported a land-saving effect of 525 million hectares. Therefore, without this land-saving effect an additional pasture area that is 25% higher than the Amazon biome in Brazil would be needed to meet current levels of Brazilian beef production.
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