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Eficiência técnica agropecuária e desmatamento: análise espacial para a Amazônia legal brasileira
[Agricultural technical efficiency and deforestation: spatial analysis for the brazilianlegal amazon]

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  • Jéssica de Lima da Vida Pellenz
  • Mariza de Almeida
  • Viviani Silva Lirio

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The agricultural sector’s performance is essential for Brazilian economic perfor-mance. However, it requires attention to the inevitable environmental counterpart caused by the expansion of land use instead of productive efficiency. Realizing the relevance of agriculture to the Brazilian economy and recognizing the importance of promoting sustainable growth, this research assesses how the levels of counties’ agricultural efficiency are related to deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. For that purpose, Data Envelopment Analysis and spatial econometrics were used. The results suggest that counties with a low level of efficiency contribute to the increase in deforestation, while the most efficient ones contribute to the reduction in deforested areas

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  • Jéssica de Lima da Vida Pellenz & Mariza de Almeida & Viviani Silva Lirio, 2021. "Eficiência técnica agropecuária e desmatamento: análise espacial para a Amazônia legal brasileira [Agricultural technical efficiency and deforestation: spatial analysis for the brazilianlegal amazo," Estudios Economicos, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Departamento de Economia, vol. 38(77), pages 119-146, july-dece.
    • Handle: RePEc:uns:esteco:v:38:y:2021:i:77:p:119-146
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.52292/j.estudecon.2021.2200
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    Keywords

    Deforestación; amazonia legal brasileña; análisis espacial;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General

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