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Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon


Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon

A Nebraska-led study describes strategies to allow Brazil, the world's largest soybean exporter, to increase its soybean production by 36% ...

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation ...

Experts say that Brazil, the world's No. 1 soy producer and beef exporter, has enough pastureland lying unused that would allow soy production ...

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

Husker study: Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon ... Developing countries around the globe face a challenge that pits economic growth ...

Can Brazil's farmers grow more soy without deforestation? | Context

Concern over the Amazon's destruction is fueling interest in land regeneration to boost soybean output in top producer Brazil.

FEATURE-Can Brazil's farmers grow more soy without deforestation?

PIRES DO RIO, Brazil, Oct 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - W hen Brazilian farmer Ricardo Santinoni first planted soybeans in the central state ...

To save rainforests, grow more soybeans on less land

Such optimistic findings could be a boon for the Brazilian Amazon, where expanding soybean farms, alongside many other types of agriculture ...

Brazil's soybean trade still harbors Amazon deforestation

Growing and trading soybeans, a burgeoning global commodity for both human food and animal feed, has enormous environmental impacts. Explored in ...

Protecting the Amazon forest and reducing global warming via ...

The conversion of rainforest for soybean production raises concerns about how Brazil can reconcile production and environmental goals. Here we ...

Researchers identify way Brazil can grow soybeans without ...

Researchers have identified a way Brazil can expand its agricultural production, while also avoiding deforestation of the Amazon and ...

Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon

The country could increase its annual soybean output by 36% by 2035 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 58% compared to current trends.

Brazil can produce more soy without deforesting the Amazon forest

Produce more soy in order to guarantee global food security without compromising, however, the future of the Amazon forest.

'Loophole' allowing for deforestation on soya farms in Brazil's Amazon

More than 400 sq miles (1,000 sq km) of Amazon rainforest has been felled to expand farms growing soya in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in ...

Connecting exports of Brazilian soy to deforestation | SEI

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

Guidelines for soy don't protect tropical forests in Brazil - Futurity

Voluntary commitments to avoid buying soybeans grown in areas of Brazil that have recently been deforested aren't enough, two studies show.

Global food giants sourced soya linked to illegal Amazon deforestation

Deforestation linked to soya in the Amazon has reduced significantly thanks in large part to the Amazon Soy Moratorium, a major agreement ...

Solving Brazil's land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing ...

Brazil has become an agricultural powerhouse, producing roughly 30 % of the world's soy and 15 % of its beef by 2013 – yet historically much of that growth ...

MAAP #161: Soy Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

A recent report by Global Forest Watch estimated the direct soy deforestation of 29,000 hectares in the Brazilian Amazon in 2019 (Schneider et ...

'Deforestation-free' soya farms still tearing down the Amazon | TBIJ

In Mato Grosso state, which stretches over the southern part of the Amazon and grows more soya than anywhere else in Brazil, 1,180 sq km of ...

10 Years Ago the Amazon Was Being Bulldozed for Soy - Greenpeace

What the moratorium has accomplished so far. Because of the moratorium, the threat of soy is no longer seen as a major driver of deforestation in the Brazilian ...

Study shows Brazil's Soy Moratorium still needed to preserve Amazon

Soybeans grow near a forested area in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. Under the Soy Moratorium, major trading companies do not purchase ...