@article{Vosti:16528,
      recid = {16528},
      author = {Vosti, Stephen A. and Witcover, Julie and Carpentier,  Chantal Line},
      title = {AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION BY SMALLHOLDERS IN THE  WESTERN BRAZILIAN AMAZON: FROM DEFORESTATION TO SUSTAINABLE  LAND USE},
      address = {2003},
      number = {605-2016-40171},
      series = {Research Report 130},
      pages = {135},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {Despite the importance of tropical moist forests for  conserving biodiversity and storing carbon, forests  continue to fall, because the private benefits of clearing  land for agriculture far outweigh tangible economic gains  from retaining forests. This report measures the financial  disparity between forested and cleared land for small-scale  farmers in two settlements in the western Brazilian Amazon  where pastures are expanding and forests receding.  Considering smallholder land use decisions—when and how  much to deforest and for what purpose—the report weighs the  trade-offs and complementarities among three development  objectives: economic growth through agriculture,  environmental sustainability, and poverty alleviation.  Drawing on field data collected in the mid-1990s, it uses  multivariate analysis to explore how factors such as soil  quality and market access shape deforestation and use of  cleared land. It introduces a farm-level bioeconomic linear  programming model to illuminate how such factors influence  land use over time, taking into account soil fertility  shifts and exploring policy and technology options that  give farmers incentives to slow deforestation without  decreasing farm household income.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/16528},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.16528},
}