Beyond zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Progress and remaining challenges to sustainable cattle intensification

Key Messages • A governance approach, combining public policy and private initiatives was effective in slowing down deforestation, but was unable to support a transition to more sustainable production systems. • New technical intensification models must be identified for low-productivity systems...

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Autores principales: Pacheco, Pablo, Piketty, Marie-Gabrielle, Poccard-Chapuis, Rene, García Drigo, Isabel, El Husny, Jamil Chaar, Gomes, Mario, Tourrand, Jean François
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Center for International Forestry Research 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80718
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Sumario:Key Messages • A governance approach, combining public policy and private initiatives was effective in slowing down deforestation, but was unable to support a transition to more sustainable production systems. • New technical intensification models must be identified for low-productivity systems in degraded lands, adapted to the biophysical and sociotechnical conditions of the Amazonian landscapes. • Multiple constraints inhibit progress toward sustainable intensification of cattle ranching, and reversing them requires that all such constraints be addressed in a coordinated way. • Designing options that work for all stakeholders, and monitoring and verifying progress of territories toward sustainability is essential to support current public policies and private initiatives.