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Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon


Soybean giant breaks pledge on Amazon deforestation - TBIJ

Cargill, a giant agricultural multinational that sells feed to British chicken farms, has been buying crops from a farm growing soybeans on ...

Husker study: Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting ...

The country is home to the world's largest area of rainforest — some 1.2 million square miles, an area more than 16 times the size of Nebraska. The Amazon ...

Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest - Ballard Brief

Logging - The clearing (land) of trees to produce lumber. 7. Mato Grosso - A large state in west-central Brazil most covered in Amazon ...

How Brazilian agriculture is offering sustainable solutions

Soybean is not driving deforestation. Over the last 20 to 30 years production has grown 400 per cent, compared to the farming area of grains ...

Amazon Soy Moratorium - FAIRR Initiative

Since the implementation of the Moratorium, soy-related deforestation has decreased while Amazonian soy production has increased by 400%, showing that ...

China's Influence on Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia

topographically appropriate for planting soy and in areas that are not good for soy ... Can pasture intensification discourage deforestation in the. Amazon and ...

Climate risks to soy‐maize double‐cropping due to Amazon ...

In view of these results, there are collective advantages of halting deforestation. Conservation of the Amazon Forest is vital for maintaining ...

Can Brazil's farmers grow more soy without deforestation?

When Brazilian farmer Ricardo Santinoni first planted soybeans in the central state of Goias, he could only afford to sow about 70 hectares.

Deforestation in the Amazon - Council on Foreign Relations

Many in Brazil's agriculture industry say ranching and farming, which have contributed to wide-scale deforestation in the Amazon, have helped reduce hunger in ...

Globalization, Trade, and the Environment: The case of Brazil | FSI

Soybean production has become a significant force for economic development in Brazil, but has come at the cost of expansion into non-protected forests in the ...

Corporate commitments alone can't stop soy-led deforestation

In 10 years, the moratorium on Brazilian soy derived from deforested land has saved just 2,300 km2 of forest, an international study says. “ ...

Two sides of the same coin: Reviving Brazil's economy and curbing ...

If Brazil does not produce those goods itself, a stronger currency will allow it to import them more cheaply. Farmers will therefore spend more ...

Deforestation in the Amazon - A vicious spiral

The Brazilian agribusiness' deforestation of the Amazon has a negative impact on the climate, biodiversity and crop yields.

Connecting exports of Brazilian soy to deforestation - Insights - Trase

While the rate of deforestation and land conversion driven by the expansion of soy production in Brazil has slowed, the Amazon and Cerrado ...

Tracking Amazon Deforestation from Above - NASA Earth Observatory

During the 1990s and 2000s, the Brazilian rainforest was sometimes losing more ... “There could be a benefit to incorporating more radar ...

10-YEAR OF SOY MORATORIUM IN THE AMAZON - Imaflora

does not prevent deforestation on farms where soybeans and other crops are grown or cattle is raised, provided that cleared areas are not planted with the grain ...

Cattle Supply Chains and Deforestation of the Amazon - CSIS

Climactic conditions have made the cerrado the preferred zone for Brazil's soy industry. Driven largely by China's insatiable demand for soy, ...

Achieving zero deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: What is ...

This patchwork of policies and control instruments could not prevent an increase in deforestation rates by 28% in 2013, mostly due to land ...

Is feeding soybeans to China's livestock driving Amazon ...

Soya plantations are expanding into areas either formerly used for cattle ranching or are displacing cattle ranchers further into forested areas. Both China and ...

Brazilian State Law Overturns Soy Moratorium that Helped Curb ...

AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — A historic agreement that's helped curb deforestation in Brazil's Amazon for nearly two decades suffered a major ...