Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

F Pendrill, TA Gardner, EB Barbier - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Green transformation offers the promise of attaining increased productivity, higher incomes
and wealth creation through structural change while simultaneously reducing …

Epidemiology, biodiversity, and technological trajectories in the Brazilian Amazon: from malaria to COVID-19

CT Codeço, AP Dal'Asta, AC Rorato, RM Lana… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The Amazon biome is under severe threat due to increasing deforestation rates and loss of
biodiversity and ecosystem services while sustaining a high burden of neglected tropical …

Rents, actors, and the expansion of commodity frontiers in the Gran Chaco

Y Le Polain de Waroux, M Baumann… - Annals of the …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Theories of frontier expansion in the last four decades have been mostly shaped by studies
of state-driven smallholder colonization. Modern-day agricultural frontiers, however, are …

The impact of income, land, and wealth inequality on agricultural expansion in Latin America

MG Ceddia - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 - pnas.org
Agricultural expansion remains the most prominent proximate cause of tropical deforestation
in Latin America, a region characterized by deforestation rates substantially above the world …