like India there is a need of conservation of forest in Brazil two
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Analysis of Brazil’s forest cover shows that while average annual forest loss in the Amazon (some 13,000 km 2 /year in the post-1991 period) has slowed compared to the pre-1991 period, the precise extent of the loss, as well as the causes of these changes, remains ambiguous. Subsidies for agricultural expansion have declined, but other factors contributing to deforestation persist, including strong domestic and international demand, continued agricultural expansion, and investment in extensive transportation networks. Globalization, liberalization of trade policy, currency devaluation, and technological advances have led to a booming agricultural sector, including a substantial increase in exports and increased profitability of agriculture. Improved agricultural prospects, including new technologies, in combination with the country’s historically acute income and land inequalities, continue to provide strong incentives for agricultural expansion in the Amazon. At the same time, democratization and decentralization of power to the state level, the growing economic and political influence of the logging and agricultural interests at the local level, and the increasing importance and value of forest-sector revenues all contribute to intensifying political and economic pressure on the Amazon’s forest resources.
In fact, Brazil’s biodiversity-rich Atlantic Forest is far more threatened than the Amazon, with as little as 7 percent of the original forest remaining, and is in urgent need of attention and conservation efforts. Nevertheless, concern for this highly fragmented and degraded forest tends to be eclipsed by the international attention to the massive Amazon to its north. Important similarities exist between the processes that have caused the loss of the Atlantic Forest and those currently degrading the Amazon.
The growth of Brazil’s plantation forest sector, one of the most advanced in the developing countries, has slowed since 1988, when credit subsidies were eliminated as part of economic reforms and general reductions in subsidies. This study explores the potentially synergistic relationship between plantation forests and natural forests, as a majority of Brazil’s wood consumption is domestic and a large portion is used in the urban manufacturing sector, creating a continued demand stimulus. Unlike other countries with tropical moist forests, Brazil exports a small share of its annual harvest, about 14 percent. Increased investment in plantations in the southern part of Brazil would provide an important supply substitute for wood from natural forests.
In fact, Brazil’s biodiversity-rich Atlantic Forest is far more threatened than the Amazon, with as little as 7 percent of the original forest remaining, and is in urgent need of attention and conservation efforts. Nevertheless, concern for this highly fragmented and degraded forest tends to be eclipsed by the international attention to the massive Amazon to its north. Important similarities exist between the processes that have caused the loss of the Atlantic Forest and those currently degrading the Amazon.
The growth of Brazil’s plantation forest sector, one of the most advanced in the developing countries, has slowed since 1988, when credit subsidies were eliminated as part of economic reforms and general reductions in subsidies. This study explores the potentially synergistic relationship between plantation forests and natural forests, as a majority of Brazil’s wood consumption is domestic and a large portion is used in the urban manufacturing sector, creating a continued demand stimulus. Unlike other countries with tropical moist forests, Brazil exports a small share of its annual harvest, about 14 percent. Increased investment in plantations in the southern part of Brazil would provide an important supply substitute for wood from natural forests.
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