Sustainability of sugarcane production in Brazil. A review

RO Bordonal, JLN Carvalho, R Lal… - Agronomy for …, 2018 - Springer
Brazil is a major sugarcane producer and its production more than doubled over the last
decades to meet global bioenergy demands for reducing crude oil dependency and …

Does grazing management provide opportunities to mitigate methane emissions by ruminants in pastoral ecosystems?

ÁS Zubieta, JV Savian, W de Souza Filho… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agriculture, and livestock production in particular, is criticized for being a contributor to
global environmental change, including emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Methane …

The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil's beef exports

EKHJ Zu Ermgassen, J Godar… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Though the international trade in agricultural commodities is worth more than 1.6trillion/year,westillhaveapoorunderstandingofthesupply…
.Inthisstudy,weprovideawall-to-wallsubnationalmapoftheoriginandsupplych…,offal …

Agricultural land use change in the Brazilian Pampa Biome: The reduction of natural grasslands

TE de Oliveira, DS de Freitas, M Gianezini, CF Ruviaro… - Land use policy, 2017 - Elsevier
This manuscript analyzes the land use changes and its conjectural drivers in the Brazilian
Pampa Biome. Therefore, land use changes in the municipalities of this biome were …

Forest conservation effects of Brazil's zero deforestation cattle agreements undermined by leakage

J Alix-Garcia, HK Gibbs - Global Environmental Change, 2017 - Elsevier
Supply chain interventions, which include certification schemes and zero-deforestation
commitments that aim to produce environmentally and socially beneficial outcomes, are …

Improved estimates of forest cover and loss in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000–2017

Y Qin, X Xiao, J Dong, Y Zhang, X Wu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The data, information and knowledge on the tropical forest area and its dynamics in the
Brazilian Amazon remain contentious. We use time-series satellite images to quantify …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: Estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon

M Bogaerts, L Cirhigiri, I Robinson, M Rodkin… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cattle ranching in Brazil is a key driver of deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. The Brazilian government plans to reduce national GHG emissions by at least …

Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle

TAP West, L Rausch, J Munger… - Conservation Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cattle production inside Brazil's protected areas (PAs), including indigenous lands,
continues to contaminate Amazonian supply chains more than a decade after efforts to …

The Brazilian beef cattle supply chain in the next decades

GC Malafaia, G de Vargas Mores, YG Casagranda… - Livestock Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The Brazilian beef cattle supply chain has undergone technological modernisation in its
production systems, resulting in better productivity, meat quality and competitiveness. The …

Sustainable commodity sourcing requires measuring and governing land use change at multiple scales

EKHJ zu Ermgassen, C Renier, A Garcia… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The increased availability of remote sensing products and new legislative agendas are
driving a growing focus on farm‐level traceability and monitoring to tackle commodity‐driven …