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Brazil floods strike blow to powerful agriculture sector

Brazil Floods Strike Blow To Powerful Agriculture Sector

Rich Chinese beef consumers are becoming more aware of traceability and Amazon deforestation

A survey conducted in Beijing and Shanghai between two renowned academic groups in China and Brazil, revealed that some Chinese consumers are willing to pay more for beef, provided it is not linked to deforestation in the Amazon and have a budding interest in traceability.

Bad weather knocks down Brazil's grain production as 'exhaustively forewarned'

When Brazilian farmer Hamilton Guterres Jardim realized the latest drought had wiped out two-thirds of his soy crop, he felt emotionally and financially shaken up, he told Mongabay. As a resident of Palmeira das Missões, a rural town in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, and a director of the state agricultural federation, […]

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive

As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive by Shanna Hanbury on 23 February 2021 Leading scientists project that if an additional 3-8% of rainforest cover is lost in the Amazon, it may overshoot a forest-to-degraded-savanna tipping point. That shift could mean mega-drought, forest death, and release of great amounts of stored carbon to the atmosphere from southern, eastern and central Amazonia. Despite this warning, Brazilian Amazon deforestation hit an 11-year high in 2020. Government clampdowns on environmental crime greatly decreased deforestation in the past, but Brazil is now facing a political backlash led by President Jair Bolsonaro, resulting in agribusiness and mining expansion and deforestation.