Ms. Léa CREPIN

Léa is a PhD student at UMR EcoPub, INRAE / AgroParisTech and the Chair in Climate Economics. The general objective of this project is to have a better understanding of international soybean trade, and how it relates to the Brazilian deforestation. The approach is mainly empirical, relying when possible on quasi natural experiments, with important use of the TRASE database, with roots related to economic theory of trade and land-use change. Further, this work will contribute to the global knowledge of the deforestation factors, and be a good complement to integrated assessment models, which generally poorly represent the deforestation dynamics.