ANALYSIS OF LAND USE AND NATURAL RESOURCES IN BEEF CATTLE IN BRAZIL: A STUDY WITH MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.9732132220101

• Palavras-chave: arc of deforestation, beef cattle, agricultural frontier, land use, natural versus planted pasture.

• Keywords: arc of deforestation, beef cattle, agricultural frontier, land use, natural versus planted pasture.

• Abstract:

  Brazil occupies a position of respect at the national and global levels in the beef livestock ranking, since it has had a significant share in this market in the last 50 years. Effectively, the beef production chain in Brazil has a real impact on the agribusiness economy and the country. The regional contrasts observed along this business chain make it possible to carry out a qualitative and quantitative analysis, in order to understand the practice of land occupation in Brazil, making it possible to record the real exploratory action and its models of use. For the diagnosis of the current situation of the stage of occupation of the territory for the livestock activity in Brazil, information of secondary base was systematized with the aid of techniques of multivariate analysis. The present study proposed a delimitation of the research sample, based on the Federation Units. A heterogeneous regional situation was detected for the occupation of spaces used for this activity, in addition to suggesting the existence of different production systems with different symptoms that point, in general terms, to the modernization of beef cattle in the country in recent decades.