In turn, public pressure has helped to revert a number of acts aimed at weakening environmental protection in Brazil, both before and after the start of the pandemic (e.g. Brasil, 2019b; Brasil, 2020f). The accumulation of evidence showing that the Ministry of the Environment is committed ...
Environmentalists complained that the law would encourage extensive use of the land and lead to deforestation. The Petrobras scandal, impeachment of Rousseff, and Temer interregnum Unable to run for a third consecutive term, Lula endorsed his former chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, as the Workers...
The aim of this study is to quantify the contribution of cattle and soy production with deforestation before and after the implementation of the action plan in the two states Mato Grosso and Pará along the BR-163. Specifically, we aim to empirically test for land use displacement processes ...
Drought, fires and deforestation battered Amazon rainforest in 2024•Dec. 28, 2024, 9:33 AM ET (AP) Frontier settlement and domestic migration have been features of Brazilian society since prehistoric times. The settlement of what is now Brazil began many thousands of years ago with the arriv...
12 months through July, to its worst level in 11 years. Para state alone accounted for 40 percent of the loss, with a heat map of incidents running along the Trans-Amazon and BR-163. The Jamanxim national forest, alongside BR-163, had the second most deforestation of any protected area...
Not all the country’s pathways in the sketch are so divergent, as can be seen below. In both scenarios, biofuel production will double mid-century, and in both scenarios, the trend of ongoing deforestation will be broken. In both scenarios, for biofuels, a large market is emerging as sec...
"Industrial meat and dairy is the biggest driver of deforestation," she said. "Yet our supermarkets and fast food chains continue to serve it up to us day after day, knowing that its production is destroying forests, threatening the lives of Indigenous communities, endangering wildlife and worse...
Brazil's Deforestation Quagmire A string of recent events indicates that Amazonian deforestation and violence against environmental activists are on the rise Making Room for Brazil's Growing Clout With its growing economy -- now the world's eighth largest -- and vast resources, Brazil has become ...
Our results also highlight that slaughterhouses bought plants in regions with higher deforestation both before and after the agreement, suggesting that companies are not avoiding these important hotspots. We conclude that the agreements have led to some avoided deforestation on registered properties, ...
“sun-grown”methodology, causing thedeforestationof large areas ofCentral Americaand other coffee-growing regions. Grown as monocultures, sun-grown coffee plants are more vulnerable to disease and thus require greater pesticide inputs than shade-grown coffee. Robusta coffee is better adapted as a ...