IMPACT OF GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH ON BRAZILIAN NATIVE FORESTS: A COMPUTABLE GENERAL BALANCE ANALYSIS

Abstract

Brazil is one of the world's leading producers and exporters of agricultural products. And it should continue to expand its production in the coming decades, thus remaining one of the main providers of food, fiber and bioenergy for domestic and foreign consumption. This study aimed to analyze, through the Static Computable General Equilibrium model, BREA, the impacts on intermediate demand and on the growth of agricultural production necessary for GDP to reach the expected projection for 2030, both for Brazilian macro-regions and for the MATOPIBA as well as the loss of native forest necessary for this to occur. As a result, to compose the GDP growth in the North region, fruit growing would emerge with a growth of 9.2%. In MATOPIBA, soybean growth in suppressed forest areas showed a growth of approximately 9.7%. It is observed that soy would continue to migrate to regions that hold cheap land and without the embargo of the soy moratorium. The total number of forests suppressed in Brazil for this to occur would be 490 thousand hectares. It is concluded that economic growth related to agricultural sectors is also linked to the conversion of areas of native vegetation for the growth of future production of commodities.