Resumo: The assessment of costs of opportunity is one way to estimate the wealth that was renounced with the legal obligation to keep areas with productive potential as environmental reserves in Brazil. Knowing the costs of opportunity is relevant in order to estimate the economic value of ecosystem services, providing environmental information to agents, aiming to underline the role of farmers in the preservation of nature and its impact in society, in socioeconomic terms as well as in terms of food production. The goal was to calculate the costs of opportunity, generation of jobs, taxes, and food in mandatory environmental reserve areas in Brazil. To calculate the cost of opportunity, we considered the main crop in the municipality under assessment, as well as corn, which has a more widespread territorial distribution. For the number of jobs to be generated, we used the average direct jobs in the corn sector.

Ano de publicação: 2019

Tipo de publicação: Resumo em anais e proceedings

Unidade: Embrapa Territorial