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Publikováno v:
Land Use Policy. 66:111-119
Between 2003 and 2013, sugarcane area expanded six-fold, from 142,000 ha to 847,000 ha, in Goias State and the Federal District, Brazil. And while there has been much research on land-use dynamics of sugarcane expansion in established sugarcane growi
Publikováno v:
Conservation Letters, Vol 10, Iss 4, Pp 470-476 (2017)
Conservation letters
Conservation letters
Rates of deforestation reported by Brazil's official deforestation monitoring system have declined dramatically in the Brazilian Amazon. Much of Brazil's success in its fight against deforestation has been credited to a series of policy changes put i
Autor:
Stephanie A Spera, Avery S Cohn, Leah K VanWey, Jack F Mustard, Bernardo F Rudorff, Joel Risso, Marcos Adami
Publikováno v:
Environmental Research Letters, Vol 9, Iss 6, p 064010 (2014)
This letter uses satellite remote sensing to examine patterns of cropland expansion, cropland abandonment, and changing cropping frequency in Mato Grosso, Brazil from 2001 to 2011. During this period, Mato Grosso emerged as a globally important cente
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https://doaj.org/article/4797f29e753b4e9cbc8ab929d3dcfcfc
Autor:
Leah K VanWey, Peter D Richards
Publikováno v:
Environmental Research Letters, Vol 9, Iss 3, p 031002 (2014)
Garrett et al ’s recent letter (2013 Environ. Res. Lett. 8 044055) shows the trade value of Brazil’s production of non-genetically modified (GM) crops, and argues that production for this niche market laid the foundation for the expansion of a va
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https://doaj.org/article/7f0965bad73e4af99761bcf611c03965
Publikováno v:
Nature Climate Change. 6:601-604
About 70% of agricultural output variance due to climate in Mato Grosso, Brazil was determined by changes in cropping frequency and/or changes in cropping area rather than yield (the most common climate impact indicator), a study now shows. The sensi
Autor:
Leah K. VanWey, Peter D. Richards
Publikováno v:
Nature Climate Change. 6:418-425
An analysis of data on property size and type as well as land use reveals the distribution of deforestation, remaining forest cover and carbon stocks in Mato Grosso, Brazil’s third largest state. Nearly two-thirds of remaining forests and carbon re
Publikováno v:
Notas de Población. 44
Las etapas iniciales del asentamiento fronterizo en la Amazonia brasilena se caracterizaron por la gran intensidad de la afluencia de flujos migratorios, la deforestacion y la rotacion de la propiedad. Cuarenta anos mas tarde, los hogares rurales est
Autor:
Eric D. Roy, Stephen Porder, Silvia Rafaela Machado Lins, Felipe Ferraz Vazquez, Stephanie A. Spera, Edwin Willig, Luiz Antonio Martinelli, Luciana Della Coletta, Peter D. Richards, Leah K. VanWey
Publikováno v:
Nature Plants. 2
Agricultural intensification in the tropics is one way to meet rising global food demand in coming decades(1,2). Although this strategy can potentially spare land from conversion to agriculture(3), it relies on large material inputs. Here we quantify
Autor:
Leah K. VanWey, Peter D. Richards
Publikováno v:
Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers. 105(4)
Developing the Amazon into a major provider of internationally traded mineral and food commodities has dramatically transformed broad expanses of tropical forests to farm and pasturelands, and to mining sites. The environmental impacts of this transf
Autor:
Leah K. VanWey, Trina Vithayathil
Publikováno v:
Rural Sociology. 78:29-50
Recent approaches to reduce rural poverty among small farm households include increasing opportunities for off-farm work alongside ongoing efforts to improve agricultural productivity and market access (World Bank 2007). For rural households living a