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Unsustainable cattle ranching | WWF - Panda.org

Extensive cattle ranching is the number one culprit of deforestation in virtually every Amazon country, and it accounts for 80% of current deforestation.

How Americans' love of beef is helping destroy the Amazon rainforest

Cattle ranching, responsible for the great majority of deforestation in the Amazon, is pushing the forest to the edge of what scientists warn could be a vast ...

Cattle Ranching - Amazon Aid

With most Amazon countries pledging to end deforestation by 2030, finding solutions to unsustainable cattle ranching is urgent. One proposal to reform the ...

How Cattle Ranching in Brazil Could Lead to the End of the Amazon

Cattle ranching and soybean farming are the main drivers of Amazonian deforestation, with cattle ranching accounting for 80% of current ...

Cattle ranching in the Amazon rainforest

Although cattle ranching is an old farming system in the Amazon, its expansion has not been as fast as in Brazilian and Andean regions (Medeiros Neto 1970; ...

Unsustainable Livestock Production - Global Forest Coalition

These unsustainable methods of industrial livestock production are one of the main contributors to climate change. Global greenhouse gas emissions from the ...

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

One of the reasons why cattle-ranching has expanded and Brazil's beef exports have soared is because of the devaluation of the Brazilian currency.

Why cattle ranching is the biggest deforestation driver in the Amazon

The second part of our new Amazon series explains how expansion of cattle farms has driven the occupation of public lands in the rainforest.

Cattle Ranching: Why Is It Bad for the Environment? - Sentient Media

Cattle ranching also causes high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, as cattle emit a large amount of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

The Economics of Cattle Ranching in the Amazon: Land Grabbing or ...

This work seeks to identify the different causal links between deforestation and cattle ranching and how those links imply different dynamics for the land ...

Cattle ranchers and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Integrated crop-livestock systems also improve the productivity of existing pasture, but ranchers may clear for new pasture as old pasture is replaced with soy ...

Sustainable cattle ranching in Brazil's Amazon - Initiative 20x20

The Novo Campo sustainable cattle ranching program, started by Brazilian NGO Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) in 2012, is a pioneering project in the Alta ...

Cattle Supply Chains and Deforestation of the Amazon - CSIS

Focusing on Beef. Cattle ranching is an important driver of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon. The rainforest, especially during the burning ...

Beef | Industries | WWF - World Wildlife Fund

There are many ways beef production—when sustainably managed—can achieve conservation benefits. Grazing maintains the health of grasslands, improves soil ...

Why Cattle Farming Is Bad for the Environment, Explained

The amount of beef and dairy humans consume is unsustainable. The world population is growing as the world's forested land is shrinking, and ...

Project Amazonia: Threats - Agriculture and Cattle Ranching - MIT

For reasons similar to agriculture, ranching is not very adaptable to the land of the Amazon Rainforest. The grasses required to feed cattle, like the crops ...

In the Amazon, a farmer practices the future of sustainable cattle ...

A cattle farmer in Tefé, Brazil, has turned his ranch into a new standard for ranching in the forest — one that's more profitable and more ...

Cattle ranching and deforestation - FAO Knowledge Repository

Effective policies are urgently needed to discourage expansion of livestock production in forest areas and promote sustainable grazing systems that will halt ...

(PDF) Cattle ranching in the Amazon rainforest - ResearchGate

Although cattle ranching is an old farming system in the Amazon, its expansion has not been as fast as in Brazilian and Andean regions (Medeiros Neto 1970; ...

EF Cattle Ranching - The Nature Conservancy

Figure 2: Degradation-causing unsustainable ranching ... The Environmental Framework for Lending and Investing in Cattle Ranching Sustainable Intensification in ...