The consumption of animal-sourced food products by humans is one of the most powerful
negative forces affecting the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems and biological diversity …

The expansion of capitalism produces contests over the definition and control of resources.
On a global scale, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification …

Illicit cattle ranching and coca farming have serious negative consequences on the
Colombian Amazon's land systems. The underlying causes of these land activities include …

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) and related approaches to human-environment
problems (eg, Forest Transition Theory) generally posit an inverted U-shaped relationship …

For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual
blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual …

Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities–serving as
the nexus for the production of food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds of industrial products …

Though the international trade in agricultural commodities is worth more than 1.6trillion/year,westillhaveapoorunderstandingofthesupply…
.Inthisstudy,weprovideawall-to-wallsubnationalmapoftheoriginandsupplych…,offal …

Expansion of global demand for soy products and biofuel poses threats to food security and
the environment. One environmental impact that has raised serious concerns is loss of …

Latin America has the planet's largest land reserves for agriculture and had the most rapid
agricultural expansion during the twenty-first century. A large portion of the expansion …

This book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going
beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the …