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Brazil could meet food demand 2040 without cutting down another tree
2014-07-24 12:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Better utilization of its vast areas of pasturelands could enable Brazil to dramatically boost agricultural production without the need to clear another hectare of Amazon rainforest, cerrado, or Atlantic forest, argues a new study published in the journal Global Environmental Change. Modeling agricultural yield potential, Brazilian researchers from the International Institute for Sustainability, Brazil's agricultural research agency Embrapa, and the national space research agency INPE find that...
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