Title:	Climate-related land use policies in Brazil: how much has been achieved with economic incentives in agriculture?
Authors:	CARAUTA, M. TROOST, C. GUZMAN-BUSTAMANTE, I. HAMPF, A. LIBERA, A. MEURER, K BONECK, E. FRANKO, U. RODRIGUES, R. de A. R. BERGER, T.
Affiliation:	MARCELO CARAUTA, UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM; CHRISTIAN TROOST, UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM; IVAN GUZMAN-BUSTAMANTE, UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM; ANNA HAMPF, LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH; AFFONSO LIBERA, IFMT; KATHARINA MEURER, SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; ERIC BONECK, LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND ORNAMENTAL CROPS; UWE FRANKO, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; RENATO DE ARAGAO RIBEIRO RODRIGUES, CNPS; THOMAS BERGER, UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM.
Date Issued:	2021
Citation:	Land Use Policy, v. 109, 105618, Oct. 2021.
Description:	Until 2019, the Brazilian federal government employed a number of policy measures to fulfill the pledge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land use change and agriculture. While its forest law enforcement strategy was partially successful in combating illegal deforestation, the effectiveness of positive incentive measures in agriculture has been less clear. The reason is that emissions reduction from market-based incentives such as the Brazilian Low-Carbon Agriculture Plan cannot be easily verified with current remote sensing monitoring approaches. Farmers have adopted a large variety of integrated land-use systems of crop, livestock and forestry with highly diverse per-hectare carbon balances. Their responses to policy incentives were largely driven by cost and benefit considerations at the farm level and not necessarily aligned with federal environmental objectives. This article analyzes climate-related land-use policies in the state of Mato Grosso, where highly mechanized soybean-cotton and soybean-maize cropping systems prevail. We employ agent-based bioeconomic simulation together with life-cycle assessment to explicitly capture the heterogeneity of farm-level costs, benefits of adoption, and greenhouse gas emissions. Our analysis confirms previous assessments but suggests a smaller farmer policy response when measured as increase in area of integrated systems. In terms of net carbon balances, our simulation results indicate that mitigation effects at the farm level depended heavily on the exact type of livestock and grazing system. The available data were insufficient to rule out even adverse effects. The Brazilian experience thus offers lessons for other land-rich countries that build their climate mitigation policies on economic incentives in agriculture.
Thesagro:	Uso da Terra Difusão de Tecnologia Clima
Keywords:	Agricultural land use Green financing Diffusion of climate-friendly technologies Model uncertainty analysis High-performance computing Uso de terras agrícolas Financiamento Verde Difusão de tecnologias favoráveis ao clima Análise de incerteza do modelo Computação de alto desempenho
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105618
Type of Material:	Artigo de periódico
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em periódico indexado (CNPS)