Impact of foot-and-mouth disease status on deforestation in Brazilian Amazon and cerrado municipalities between 2000 and 2010 |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Y2E2 Building, Suite 226, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;2. Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama St, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;3. Department of Earth System Science and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, USA;4. Georges Lemaître Earth and Climate Research Centre, Earth & Life Institute, University of Louvain, Croix du Sud 2/ L7.05.05, (de Serres building - B office - 157), B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;1. Pós-Graduação em Ciência Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária/Zootecnia, UFMS - Univ. Federal Mato Grosso do Sul, 79064-470 Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil;2. Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Animal da Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FAMEZ), UFMS, 79064-470 Campo Grande, MS, Brazil;3. Bolsista DCR, Fundapam -Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa Agropecuária e Ambiental, Brazil;4. Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinária/Bolsista, Fundapam -Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa Agropecuária e Ambiental, Brazil;5. Embrapa Gado de Corte, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil;6. Laboratório de Biologia do Carrapato, Embrapa Gado de Corte, 79106-570 Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil;1. School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, United States;2. Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, United States;3. Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, United States;4. Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, 3, place Louis Pasteur, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;5. Department of Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany;6. Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California – Berkeley, 231 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States |
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| Abstract: | Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon released approximately 5.7 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010, and 50–80% of this deforestation was for pasture. Most assume that increasing demand for cattle products produced in Brazil caused this deforestation, but the empirical work to-date on cattle documents only correlations between cattle herd size, pasture expansion, cattle prices, and deforestation. This paper uses panel data on deforestation and foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) status—an exogenous demand shifter—to estimate whether changes in FMD status caused new deforestation in municipalities in the Brazilian Amazon and cerrado biomes during the 2000–2010 period. Results suggest that, on average, becoming certified as FMD-free caused a temporary spike in deforestation in the 2 years after a municipality became FMD-free, but caused subsequent deforestation to decline relative to infected municipalities during the 2000–2010 period. |
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| Keywords: | Deforestation Brazil Cattle Foot-and-mouth disease Beef exports |
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