Ritaumaria Pereira

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the zero-deforestation cattle agreements signed by major meatpacking companies in the Brazilian Amazon state of Para using property-level data on beef supply chains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the role of location rents in the evolution of the cattle economy in the Brazilian Amazon and the impact of these rents on land managers and the spatial implications of their behavior on forests.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey covering 751 households engaged in such land reform actions in the Brazilian Amazon is presented, in order to describe participants and land reform processes, and concludes by calling attention to the challenge DALR may ultimately pose to the Brazilian state.

TL;DR: The goal of the article is to explicate how loggers shape their road networks, in order to theoretically explain an important type of forest fragmentation found in the Amazon basin, particularly in Brazil.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the contentious process of settlement formation of a particular type of land reform settlement, which they call spontaneous direct action land reform, and place the settlement formation process within a land cover and land use framework by describing the underlying processes that lead to spontaneous settlement formation in terra devoluta in the Brazilian Amazon.