Patterns of land use, extensification, and intensification of Brazilian agriculture

LCP Dias, FM Pimenta, AB Santos… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable intensification of agriculture is one of the main strategies to provide global food
security. However, its implementation raises enormous political, technological, and social …

Cerrado deforestation threatens regional climate and water availability for agriculture and ecosystems

AA Rodrigues, MN Macedo, DV Silvério… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is one of the most biodiverse savannas in the world, yet 46%
of its original cover has been cleared to make way for crops and pastures. These extensive …

Soy expansion in Brazil's Cerrado

LL Rausch, HK Gibbs, I Schelly… - Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Cerrado biome is Brazil's breadbasket and a major provider of ecosystem
services, though these dual roles are increasingly at odds, in part because there are few …

[HTML][HTML] The challenge of commodity-centric governance in sacrifice frontiers: Evidence from the Brazilian Cerrado's soy sector

SA Levy, AVN Garik, RD Garrett - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation governance is increasingly globalized, particularly supply chain polices
implemented by multinational corporations. However, the ways that local elite narratives and …

[HTML][HTML] The European Union and United Kingdom's deforestation-free supply chains regulations: Implications for Brazil

SEMC de Oliveira, L Nakagawa, GR Lopes… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper analyses the potential implications of the proposed European Union
Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and the recently adopted United Kingdom (UK) legislation …

CAPITAL FINANCEIRO, LAND GRABBING EA MULTIESCALARIDADE NA GRILAGEM DE TERRA NA REGIÃO DO MATOPIBA/Financial capital, land grabbing and …

S Frederico, MC de Almeida - Revista Nera, 2019 - revista.fct.unesp.br
O artigo analisa o fenômeno de land grabbing na região do Matopiba. Por land grabbing
entende-se a apropriação de terras para acumulação de capital diante da conjunção de …

Simulated impacts of soy and infrastructure expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A maximum entropy approach

GP Frey, TAP West, T Hickler, L Rausch, HK Gibbs… - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Historically, the expansion of soy plantations has been a major driver of land-use/cover
change (LUCC) in Brazil. While a series of recent public actions and supply-chain …

Modeling the Brazilian Cerrado land use change highlights the need to account for private property sizes for biodiversity conservation

CB Colman, A Guerra, A Almagro… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Simulating future land use changes can be an important tool to support decision-making,
especially in areas that are experiencing rapid anthropogenic pressure, such as the Cerrado …

Discriminating land use and land cover classes in Brazil based on the annual PROBA-V 100 m time series

YE Shimabukuro, E Arai, V Duarte… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Brazil, with more than 8 million km 2, presents six different biomes, ranging from natural
grasslands (Pampa biome) to tropical rainfall forests (Amazônia biome), with different land …

Beliefs underlying preservation of native vegetation beyond legal requirements: an elicitation study among landowners in Cerrado

JAR Borges, AHL Falcette - Regional Environmental Change, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Brazilian Cerrado is one of the most biodiverse hotspots in the world, the
birthplace of major rivers, and plays a crucial role in climate stability. Despite ongoing efforts …