Tropical deforestation continues at alarming rates with profound impacts on ecosystems,
climate, and livelihoods, prompting renewed commitments to halt its continuation. Although it …

Highlights•Telecouplings have generated widespread spillover systems worldwide.•We
develop a typology of spillover systems based on six criteria.•Spillover systems are often …

The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

Irrigated agriculture has important implications for achieving the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals. However, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its …

Between 2004 and 2012, multiple policies contributed to one of the great conservation
successes of the twenty-first century—an 84% decrease in the rate of Brazilian Amazon …

The awareness of the need for robust impact evaluations in conservation is growing and
statistical matching techniques are increasingly being used to assess the impacts of …

This article updates our previous comprehensive meta-analysis of what drives and stops
deforestation (Busch and Ferretti-Gallon). By including six additional years of research, this …

High transportation costs have been a barrier to the expansion of agriculture in the interior of
Brazil. To reduce transportation costs, Brazil launched the National Logistics Plan, aiming to …

Protecting the environment and enhancing food security are among the world's Sustainable
Development Goals and greatest challenges. International food trade is an important …

In our paper ''Coupled Human and Natural Systems''(Liu et al. 2007), we developed a timely,
theoretical, and practical foundation for research on Coupled Human And Natural Systems …