| Titre : | Technical Efficiency, Farm Size and Tropical Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazonian Forest |
| Auteurs : | Sébastien Marchand |
| Type de document : | Working Paper |
| Editeur : | Clermont-Ferrand : Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international (Cerdi), 2010 |
| Collection : | Études et Documents Cerdi, ISSN 2114-7957, num. 12 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Tags : | Brazil ; Farm size ; Stochastic frontier model ; Brazil. ; Land use model |
| Résumé : | This paper analyses the impact of farm productivity as well as farm size on deforestation in Brazil. A two step econometric approach is adopted. A bootstrapped translog stochastic frontier that is a posteriori checked for functional consistency is used in order to estimate technical efficiency of which estimates are introduced in a land use model to assess the impact of productivity and farm size on deforestation. Analysis of agricultural census tract data suggests that technical efficiency has a nonlinear (convex) effect: less and more efficient farms use more land for agricultural activities and so they have a positive effect on deforestation. However, the majority of farms are on the ascendant slope so that efficiency implies more deforestation in Brazilian Legal Amazon. Moreover, farm size has a robust negative effect on deforestation. Contrary to many studies, this result suggests that small farms convert more natural (forested) land into agricultural land than large ones. |
| En ligne : | https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00552981 |
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