Fake controversies have influenced policy making on health and environmental issues for
decades, resulting in major implementation setbacks worldwide. As a case study, in this …

In a context of international scrutiny, important efforts are being made to preserve Brazil's
tropical forests. Meanwhile, the destruction of its Cerrado biome advances with increasing …

Almost two-thirds of the Brazilian territory still has prevalence of natural vegetation. Although
not all pristine, much of these areas have high conservation value. 170million hectare (Mha) …

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Agronomists in most parts of the world are already, and will be increasingly in the next
couple of decades, solicited to resolve pressing issues associated with global climate …

Conservação, SNUC), which regulates the establishment and management of public and
sometimes privately owned Protected Areas, and the Brazilian Forest Act (Federal Law …

Socioenvironmental certification is a market-based mechanism aimed to foster sustainability
of production systems. However, mainstream certification schemes in the agricultural sector …

Brazil seeks to rapidly increase its agricultural production to meet future demands,
especially for sugarcane, which is an agricultural commodity and a biofuel source. In this …

Brazil is one of the major contributors to land‐use change emissions, mostly driven by
agricultural expansion for food, feed, and bioenergy feedstock. Policies to avoid …

The elucidation of phytogeographic patterns and their drivers in biodiversity hotspots is
essential to the study of ecology and the conservation of these areas. In 2000, an important …