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Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest

2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 92; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104491

1873-5754

Éder Johnson de Area Leão Pereira, Luiz Carlos de Santana Ribeiro, Lúcio Flávio da Silva Freitas, Hernane Borges de Barros Pereira,

Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development

Since his inauguration on January 1, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro, a declared right-wing candidate nicknamed “Tropical Trump,” has introduced measures to reduce environmental restrictions on livestock farming, the main greenhouse gas (GHG) producing sector in Brazil that is responsible for most of the deforestation in the country. This dangerous relationship between politics and livestock farming in Brazil is detrimental to environmental conservation. Politicians are introducing measures that facilitate the expansion of this type of farming, which in turn provides inputs for the food industry, i.e. agribusiness, which in turn finances politics, thus producing a dangerous cycle in forest conservation.