Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: pasture, cropland, land speculation

Mongabay
Mar 19, 2019, 1:00 pm186 pts
A soy plantation in the Brazilian Cerrado. Image by Alicia Prager. Brazil’s cropland (row crop) area nearly doubled between 2000 and 2014, new research from the University of Maryland’s Department of Geographical Sciences shows. This expansion is significant given that Brazil was already a major…

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