Brazilian policy and agribusiness damage the Amazon rainforest

• de Area Leão Pereira, Eder Johnson ^[3] ; de Santana Ribeiro, Luiz Carlos ^[1] ; da Silva Freitas, Lúcio Flávio ^[2] ; de Barros Pereira, Hernane Borges ^[4]
  1. [1] Universidade Federal de Sergipe

     Universidade Federal de Sergipe

     Brasil

     
  2. [2] Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul

     Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul

     Brasil

     
  3. [3] Instituto Federal de Educação do Maranhão, Brazil
  4. [4] Programa de Modelagem Computacional, SENAI Cimatec, Brazil

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• Localización: Land use policy: The International Journal Covering All Aspects of Land Use, ISSN 0264-8377, ISSN-e 1873-5754, Nº. 92, 2020
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.