Title: Geographic patterns of land use and intensity in the Brazilian Amazon
First published: 2001
Description: Nearly 90 percent of agricultural land in the Brazilian Amazon is used for pasture, or has been cleared and left unused. Pasture on average is used with very low productivity. Analysis based on census tract data shows that agricultural conversion of forested areas in the wetter western Amazon would be even less productive, using current technologies.
Subjects: Deforestation, Sustainable agriculture, Land use, Landscape assessment, Agricultural productivity
Places: Brazil, Amazon River Estuary
LC classification: HG3881.5.W57