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


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

The study, published in Nature Sustainability, found that intensifying crop and livestock systems would stop soybean production expanding into forested areas.

Growing Soy on Cattle Pasture Can Eliminate Amazon Deforestation ...

Researchers have found that expanding soy cultivation into underutilized cattle pastureland would help prevent massive deforestation and carbon ...

Brazil can grow more soybeans without deforesting Amazon

Significantly increasing soybean crop yields. · Growing a second crop of corn on soybean fields in certain areas. · Raising more cattle on smaller ...

The link between cattle-ranching, soy and deforestation | WWF

... to expand their pastures. Cattle-ranching is also popular because of the ... Hamburger Connection Fuels Amazon Destruction: Cattle ranching and deforestation in ...

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Soybean farms are typically planted in old cattle pastures, and as soy encroaches, pasture is forced into new frontiers, driving deforestation ...

Brazil's soybean trade still harbors Amazon deforestation

Some of that impact is obvious if critical forests are mowed down to grow soybeans. Some impacts are more hidden and demand a holistic method to ...

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 ...

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

In 2006, soy traders voluntarily agreed to stop buying soy from areas deforested in the Amazon after a certain date. Since then, soy farming has ...

Deforestation Linked to Agriculture | Global Forest Review

Several studies have documented an increase in soy planting on former pasture areas in Mato Grosso and the Amazon, potentially leading to a ...

The case of soy production and cattle ranching in Brazil, 2001–2012

The Brazilian Amazon has experienced one of the world's highest deforestation rates in the last decades. Cattle ranching and soy expansion constitute the ...

Drivers of Deforestation - Our World in Data

From this, we would conclude that the dominant driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon was the expansion of pasture for beef production. If we look at ...

How the Demand for Cheap Soy Is Destroying the Amazon

Soy replaces existing cattle pasture, which stimulates the need for more forest clearing for cattle grazing, promoting further Amazon deforestation. In addition ...

Demand for meat is destroying the Amazon. Smarter choices at the ...

It is dominated by industrial-sized soy plantations where the protein-rich legume is being grown for conversion to animal feed for livestock ...

Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern ...

Although the majority of soy expansion replaced cattle pastures, an average of 12% of the area in large clearings (>25 ha) each year was directly converted from ...

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

However, soya farming has continued to expand in the Amazon, overwhelmingly on land that was previously cleared, usually for cattle. That ...

Indirect land-use change deforestation linked to soy ... - Trase

Despite the success of the Amazon Soy Moratorium in reducing direct conversion of forest to soy, the crop is indirectly linked to ...

Mongabay on X: "Expanding soy cultivation into underutilized cattle ...

Expanding soy cultivation into underutilized cattle pastureland would help prevent massive deforestation and carbon emissions compared to ...

EUDR Cattle and Soy: The Farming Practices Fueling Deforestation

EUDR Cattle and Soy: 75% of the world's soy production is used for animal feed and has been linked to deforestation.

Agribusiness giant again linked to Amazon deforestation

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

The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian ...

The dynamics of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon are complex. A growing debate considers the extent to which deforestation is a result ...