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    How Brazil's sustainable cattle schemes could beef up to conserve forests and sustainable rural livelihoods

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    Working Paper no. 148 (10.38Mb)
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    Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice
    Galuchi, Tharic
    Nery Alves Pinto, Helena
    McDermott, Constance
    Date
    2016-12
    Language
    en
    Type
    Working Paper
    Accessibility
    Open Access
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    Maguire-Rajpaul VA, Alves-Pinto HN, McDermott CL, Galuchi T. 2016. How Brazil’s sustainable cattle schemes could beef up to conserve forests, reduce emissions, and sustain rural livelihoods. CCAFS Working Paper no. 148. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
    Permanent link to cite or share this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78171
    Abstract/Description
    Cattle ranching is the largest driver of Brazilian deforestation, a relevant emitter of greenhouse gases, and an important source of local livelihoods. In response, many initiatives attempt to render Brazil’s beef production more environmentally and socially sustainable. Drawing on key informant interviews, this paper assesses the effectiveness of Brazil’s sustainable cattle schemes, with a particular focus on avoided deforestation in the Amazon biome; climate change mitigation; and improving the livelihoods of smallholder ranchers. We found that the sustainable cattle schemes have yet to reach scale and have yet to effectively halt forest loss, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or sustain rural livelihoods. Thus far, cattle moratoria have achieved the greatest scale in addressing deforestation, but only by targeting the largest and thus most resourced ranches. In order to achieve both socially and environmentally sustainable cattle production, Brazil’s sustainable cattle schemes must scale up, and all governance groups interviewed recommended bottom-up, technical assistance to ranchers to achieve this. Mixed governance schemes, involving both state and non-state actors, were also widely advocated. Impacts were difficult to compare due to a lack of uniform monitoring and thus comparability across the schemes; tools for common measurement are recommended to better compare schemes’ effectiveness. The greatest perceived barriers were market-based: namely the lack of a sustainable beef brand and the associated lack of consumer demand. Respondents also noted the need for improved agronomic and technical assistance for ranchers. Social considerations in the schemes were found to be vague, and in some schemes, neglected.
    CGIAR Author ORCID iDs
    Helena Nery Alves Pintohttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-1234
    Constance L McDermotthttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5238-0936
    Other CGIAR Affiliations
    Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
    AGROVOC Keywords
    climate change; food security; agriculture; livestock; conservation; sustainability; rural development
    Subjects
    LOW EMISSIONS DEVELOPMENT;
    Countries
    Brazil
    Regions
    Latin America; South America
    Organizations Affiliated to the Authors
    University of Oxford; International Institute for Sustainability; Environmental Change Institute; Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests; Forest Governance Programme; Instituto de Manejo e Certificação Florestal e Agrícola, Brazil
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