The analysis uses satellite images and an econometric methodology to estimate the impacts of the credit on recovering degraded pastures and land use changes in the Cerrado biome.5 1 MAPBIOMAS. [...] 5 The researchers matched the georeferenced polygons of the Central Bank of Brazil’s (Banco Central do Brasil - BCB) rural credit operations with data on land use and pasture quality from the platform of the Brazilian Annual Land Use and Land Cover Mapping Project (Projeto de Mapeamento Anual do Uso e Cobertura da Terra no Brasil - MAPBIOMAS) and the Image Processing and Geoprocessing Laboratory (. [...] The provision of credit does not generate a significant increase in the overall quality of the pastures and causes only marginal changes in land use. [...] Read the full report at bit.ly/Pasture-Recovery 6 A lthough there are indications of errors in the declaration of areas, this is the official instrument used to direct the subsidized resources of the ABC Program and is therefore relevant as the object of the effectiveness analysis. [...] However, this inaccuracy does not change the conclusions, since the results remain unchanged if the analysis is carried out only on the pasture areas of the declared polygons.
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