Soybean expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: direct and indirect impacts of the Soy Moratorium

• Ano de defesa: 2021
• Autor(a) principal: Pede, Anna Costola
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Amazônia Brasileira; Brazilian Amazon; Deforestation; Desmatamento; Land-use; Moratória da soja; Soy Moratorium; Uso da terra
• Link de acesso: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/96/96131/tde-13082021-103208/

In the 2000s, rising concern about the Amazon forest degradation shed light on the inforest supply chains, especially cattle ranching and soy cultivation. This dissertation proposes an investigation of the impacts of the Amazon Soy Moratorium (ASM), a pioneer supply-chain commitment. ASM is an agreement by grain traders not to purchase soybeans cultivated in Amazon areas deforested after July 2006. Exploring Amazon\'s geographic frontier and satellite data, this dissertation investigates ASM impacts on soy expansion using a Regression Discontinuity Design. Results point that ASM had no statistically significant impact on soy-driven deforestation. However, results suggest a relative increment in the soy cover in the Amazon area, meaning that soy expansion continued but on land occupied by other activities. To complement these results, performing a Differencein-Differences analysis, I found that in areas close to the biome border, ASM induced the displacement of soy cultivation to pasture areas.