Chinese-driven frontier expansion in the Amazon: four axes of pressure caused by the growing demand for soy trade

Fuchs, Vanessa Boanada

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dc.creator	Fuchs, Vanessa Boanada
dc.date	2020
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-28T19:08:38Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-28T19:08:38Z
dc.identifier	1519-6089
dc.identifier	https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74265211003
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/241848
dc.description	"Chinese demand for the world's commodities has the capacity to shape agricultural frontiers in many parts of the world, including the Amazon. This article is a preliminary report on findings concerning the expansion of the agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Amazon driven by increases in soybean production, extension of cropped area, cross-referenced with satellite data on deforestation rates at the smallest possible scale: the municipal level. The study identifies 21 municipalities forming fours axes of frontier expansion in the Amazon, where soycrops may be the cause for displacement deforestation, as it is the case of cattle ranching. Despite the Soy Moratorium, frontiers in the Amazon keep shifting. The article advocates that further research in those four axes is needed to better understand the relationship between those two industries in terms of land use as well as the socio-environmental on the ground impacts. Furthermore, the connections between those areas with present and future infrastructure development in the Amazon, many counting with direct Chinese investment, will be key to the expansion of the soy value chain, bypassing the initial goal of zero-deforestation."
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=742
dc.rights	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais
dc.source	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.20
dc.subject	Sociología
dc.subject	Soy
dc.subject	Amazon
dc.subject	Deforestation
dc.subject	Chinese demand
dc.subject	Agricultural frontiers
dc.title	Chinese-driven frontier expansion in the Amazon: four axes of pressure caused by the growing demand for soy trade
dc.type	artículo científico