Agrarian elites such as cattle ranchers and other large landowners, as well as the narcotraficantes, consolidated their economic and social power in the countryside.
The rents provide ranchers with an additional source of income to help alleviate other pressing needs.
But in no way does this disprove that raising agricultural productivity tends to arrest farmers and ranchers' encroachment on natural habitats.
Typically, the market provides no incentive to ranchers to incorporate these off-site impacts of their land use into their own profit-maximizing framework.
It further demonstrates the need and positive impacts of delivering conservation education directly to farmers and ranchers, who manage 43% of the land nationwide.
Many technical resource professionals presently engage farmers and ranchers on the local level.
The conservation subsidies result in several development benefits to low income ranchers.
Finally, ranchers have other choices that can be included, at some loss in model parsimony.
