Soybean cultivation as a threat to the environment in Brazil

By Philip Martin Fearnside. Environmental Conservation, 2001

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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The potential of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for semi-quantitative scenario development, with an example from Brazil (2009, background): “(2005); Fearnside (2001, 2003); Laurance et al. (2001); and Pacheco (2005).”
Agriculture expansion and deforestation in seasonally dry forests of north-west Argentina (2005, background): “The Chaco covers a total area of c.1 200 000 km2 (Dinerstein et al. 1995), in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay.”
Interactions among Amazon land use, forests and climate: prospects for a near-term forest tipping point (2008, background): “Demands for soya are also increasing owing to the emerging Brazilian bio-diesel industry and growing imports of soya by the burgeoning animal ration industries (Fearnside 2001; Brown 2004; Clay 2004; Nepstad et al. 2006a; USDA 2007).”
Tracing distant environmental impacts of agricultural products from a consumer perspective (2011, background): “For all these environmental impacts of agricultural products, the origin of a product canmake a large difference: soybeans from LatinAmerica canbe linked to deforestation dynamics (Fearnside, 2002), while tomatoes from California contribute to critical levels of water stress (Ridoutt andPfister, 201”
Is Oil Palm the Next Emerging Threat to the Amazon? (2009, background): “In particular, by driving up land demand and prices, expansion would reduce the viability of ecosystem-services payments, such as carbon offsets, that could provide incentives for landowners to leave forest standing [27-30].”
Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on The influence of human demography and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics Globalization and Land-Use Transitions in Latin America (2008, background): “This process affects the species-rich Amazon forests (Fearnside 2001, Killeen et al. 2008) and indirectly favors other forms of degradation beyond the agriculture frontier, such as logging and fire (Nepstad et al. 1999).”
Review of Environmental, Economic and Policy Aspects of Biofuels (2007, background): “Biofuels are also feared for the impact they will have on the natural environment (Runge 2007, van Dam 2006, Fearnside 2002, Giampietro 1997).”
The potential of insect protein to reduce food-based carbon footprints in Europe: The case of broiler meat production (2021, background): “…it is also an ingredient that can contribute to negative environmental impacts in broiler feed production, for example due to its land use (e.g., Fearnside, 2001; Barona et al., 2010; Salomone et al., 2017), as well as through contributing negatively to social sustainability measures (Jia et…”