Contemporary populism and the environment

A Ofstehage, W Wolford… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This review engages with literature on authoritarian populism, focusing specifically on its
relationship to the environment. We analyze hybrid combinations of authoritarianism and …

[HTML][HTML] Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments

SA Levy, F Cammelli, J Munger, HK Gibbs… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Deforestation for agriculture is a key threat to global carbon stocks, biodiversity, and
indigenous ways of life. In the absence of strong territorial governance, zero-deforestation …

Agricultural support and public policies improving sustainability in Brazil's beef industry

L Molossi, AK Hoshide, DC de Abreu, RA de Oliveira - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since the dawn of Brazilian trade, extensive cattle farming has predominated. Brazil's
extensive pasture-based system uses pasture plants adapted to climate and soil conditions …

Just transition towards a bioeconomy: Four dimensions in Brazil, India and Indonesia

MGB Lima - Forest Policy and Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
The bioeconomy has been portrayed as a transformational change to replace fossil-based
fuels and other goods such as plastics. It is to substitute those goods while promoting zero …

Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies

J Grabs, F Cammelli, SA Levy, RD Garrett - Global Environmental Change, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to the clearing of tropical forests for agricultural expansion, agri-food companies
have adopted promises to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains in the form of …

Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges

A Schilling‐Vacaflor, A Lenschow - Regulation & Governance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have
received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest‐risk commodities …

Large-scale degradation of the Tocantins-Araguaia River basin

FM Pelicice, AA Agostinho, A Akama… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Tocantins-Araguaia Basin is one of the largest river systems in South America,
located entirely within Brazilian territory. In the last decades, capital-concentrating activities …

Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils

LA Domeignoz-Horta, SL Cappelli, R Shrestha… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Expanding and intensifying agriculture has led to a loss of soil carbon. As agroecosystems
cover over 40% of Earth's land surface, they must be part of the solution put in action to …

Corporate power in the bioeconomy transition: The policies and politics of conservative ecological modernization in Brazil

MG Bastos Lima - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The bioeconomy transition is a double-edged sword that may either address fossil fuel
dependence sustainably or aggravate human pressures on the environment, depending on …

Place-based solutions for global social-ecological dilemmas: An analysis of locally grounded, diversified, and cross-scalar initiatives in the Amazon

M Londres, C Salk, KP Andersson, M Tengö… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Amazon has a diverse array of social and environmental initiatives that adopt forest-
based land-use practices to promote rural development and support local livelihoods …