The recent 70% decline in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon suggests that it is possible
to manage the advance of a vast agricultural frontier. Enforcement of laws, interventions in …

New partnerships between governments, private companies, and nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) are resha** global environmental governance. In particular, there …

A prominent goal of policies mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss is to achieve
zero deforestation in the global supply chain of key commodities, such as palm oil and …

The world loses around 24 million hectares of forest every year–an area the size of the UK.
This metric, while important, combines two different types of forest loss: deforestation, the …

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 …

Brazil's Soy Moratorium (SoyM) was the first voluntary zero-deforestation agreement
implemented in the tropics and set the stage for supply-chain governance of other …

Understanding spatial patterns of land use and land cover is essential for studies
addressing biodiversity, climate change and environmental modeling as well as for the …

Countries are encouraged to identify drivers of deforestation and forest degradation in the
development of national strategies and action plans for REDD+. In this letter we provide an …

Agriculture, deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and local/regional climate change
have been closely intertwined in Brazil. Recent studies show that this relationship has been …

Land use is regulated through various mixes of command-and-control interventions that
directly affect land use via land use restrictions, and other public interventions that indirectly …