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When deforestation laws are difficult to enforce, increased agricultural productivity and intensification are used as an indirect policy tools to reduce the pressure to clear forests for new land, a strategy known as the Borlaug hypothesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Increasing productivity can have ambiguous effects on forest protection in theory: it can expand the scope of farming, which is detrimental to the forest, but it can also induce farmers facing factor-market constraints to shift away from land-intensive cattle grazing toward less-harmful crop cultivation.<\/p>\n

This study examines these predictions using five waves of the Brazil Agricultural census, 1970-2006. It identifies productivity shocks using the expansion of rural electrification in Brazil during 1960-2000. The analysis shows that electrification increased crop productivity, and farmers subsequently both expand farming through frontier land conversion, but also shift away from cattle ranching and into crop cultivation.<\/p>\n

The latter allows farmers to retain more native vegetation within rural settlements. Overall, electrification causes a net decrease in deforestation. The study also shows that Brazilian farmers are credit constrained and invest more in capital following electrification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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