The Brazilian forests account for a large part of the world's flora and fauna diversity. Nevertheless, these important ecosystems are being supplanted to anthropic uses seeking for socioeconomic development with no actual improvement in the life of Brazilians. Therefore, in this study, we have evaluated the relation between the deforestation and the socioeconomic development in Brazil, from 2000 to 2010. A multiple linear model of fixed effects was fit to the data that composed a balanced panel with 3168 observations. The results suggest that the Brazilian socioeconomic development is intensively linked to the use of forest resources, leading to two problems: the ephemeral improvement in development as shown by the indicators; and the favoring of income concentration. However, the indicators that mean greater efficiency in Brazilian agriculture have had a positive effect on native forests. These results demonstrate the importance of investing in agricultural research in the promotion of socioeconomic development and forest conservation.

巴西森林占世界动植物多样性的很大一部分。然而，这些重要的生态系统已被人类使用替代，以寻求社会经济发展，而巴西人的生活却没有任何实际改善。因此，在这项研究中，我们评估了2000年至2010年巴西森林砍伐与社会经济发展之间的关系。固定影响的多重线性模型适用于组成具有3168个观察值的平衡面板的数据。结果表明，巴西的社会经济发展与森林资源的利用密切相关，从而导致两个问题：指标显示，发展的短暂改善；以及对收入集中度的支持。然而，意味着提高巴西农业效率的指标对本地森林产生了积极影响。这些结果证明了对农业研究进行投资对促进社会经济发展和森林保护的重要性。