New improved Brazilian daily weather gridded data (1961–2020)

AC Xavier, BR Scanlon, CW King… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The demand for meteorological gridded datasets has increased within the last few years to
inform studies such those in climate, weather, and agriculture. These studies require those …

Climatic limit for agriculture in Brazil

L Rattis, PM Brando, MN Macedo, SA Spera… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Brazil's leadership in soybean and maize production depends on predictable rainfall in the
Amazon-Cerrado agricultural frontier. Here we assess whether agricultural expansion and …

[HTML][HTML] A worrying future for river flows in the brazilian Cerrado provoked by land use and climate changes

YB Salmona, EAT Matricardi, DL Skole, JFA Silva… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, we assessed the impacts of land use and climate changes on the river flows of
81 watersheds within the Cerrado biome, Brazil, based on a comprehensive analysis of field …

Changes in atmospheric circulation and evapotranspiration are reducing rainfall in the Brazilian Cerrado

GS Hofmann, RC Silva, EJ Weber, AA Barbosa… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Here we analyze the trends of rainfall and the frequency of rainy days over the Brazilian
Cerrado between 1960 and 2021 in four distinct periods according to the seasonal patterns …

Integrating human rights and the environment in supply chain regulations

A Schilling-Vacaflor - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
To address the negative externalities associated with global trade, countries in the Global
North have increasingly adopted supply chain regulations. While global supply chains …

Water balance components and climate extremes over Brazil under 1.5 C and 2.0 C of global warming scenarios

P da Silva Tavares, R Acosta, P Nobre… - Regional Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
This work aimed to evaluate changes in water balance components (precipitation,
evapotranspiration, and water availability) and precipitation extremes projected under global …

Water security threats and solutions in the Grande River basin–One of the Brazilian agricultural frontiers

ALF Teixeira, A Bhaduri, CAC Siefert… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of sustainable agricultural management solutions at
a farm level to mitigate water security threats in one of Brazil's agricultural frontiers–the …

[HTML][HTML] Deforestation-induced changes in rainfall decrease soybean-maize yields in Brazil

F de Souza Batista, C Duku, L Hein - Ecological Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Whereas the global demand for food, fiber and energy is increasing, the capacity of
ecosystems services to sustain agricultural production is being compromised worldwide …

Cerrado conservation is key to the water crisis

CC Pereira, GW Fernandes - Science, 2022 - science.org
It is one thing to hope for an end to China's zero-COVID policy. It is quite another to critique it
without sensitivity to the issues. In his Editorial “Zeroing out on zero-COVID”(3 June, p …

[PDF][PDF] The water frontier: Agribusiness vs. smallholder communities in the Brazilian Cerrado

L Eloy, AL da Silva, O Coelho Filho… - Water …, 2023 - water-alternatives.org
Agro-industrial expansion in the Brazilian savannas (the Cerrado) is associated with
deforestation and land conflicts, but its relationship with water issues remains under-studied …