Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil's Roraima state

As infrastructure projects and soy plantations pump up land values in the Brazilian Amazon, smallholders are selling up and moving to more distant frontiers, perpetuating a cycle of displacement and deforestation.

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