Food security

C Mbow, C Rosenzweig, LG Barioni, TG Benton… - 2019‏ - figshare.utas.edu.au
The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail,
consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the …

Deforestation in protect areas in the Amazon: a threat to biodiversity

PFPR Paiva, M de Lourdes Pinheiro Ruivo… - Biodiversity and …, 2020‏ - Springer
The creation of protected areas (Protected Areas—CA and Indigenous Lands—IL) is one of
the effective strategies to contain deforestation, and landscape fragmentation and conserve …

Soil physical quality responses to silvopastoral implementation in Colombian Amazon

KL Polanía-Hincapié, A Olaya-Montes, MR Cherubin… - Geoderma, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Cattle ranching is the main land use after deforestation in Amazon region of Colombia.
Those poor-managed pasture system typically induces soil compaction, acidification …

Amazon forest on the edge of collapse in the Maranhão State, Brazil

CHLS Junior, D Celentano, GX Rousseau… - Land Use Policy, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The year 2019 in Brazil was marked by environmental setbacks, which catalyzed the
increase of illegal deforestation and fire rates in the Brazilian Amazon. In the Amazon region …

Fire responses to the 2010 and 2015/2016 Amazonian droughts

CHL Silva Junior, LO Anderson, AL Silva… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Extreme droughts in Amazonia cause anomalous increase in fire occurrence, disrupting the
stability of environmental, social, and economic systems. Thus, understanding how droughts …

Patterns and drivers of carbon stock change in ecological restoration regions: A case study of upper Yangtze River Basin, China

Y Quan, RWA Hutjes, H Biemans, F Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Balancing ecology and human development has been a long and wide concern. The upper
Yangtze River Basin (UYRB) of China has implemented large important ecological …

Monitoring cocoa-driven deforestation: The contexts of encroachment and land use policy implications for deforestation free cocoa supply chains in Ghana

G Ashiagbor, WA Asante, EK Forkuo, E Acheampong… - Applied …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This research analyzed cocoa deforestation within the framework of land-use policies to
support efforts to implement deforestation-free cocoa commitments in Ghana. Land-use …

Assessing human and environmental pressures of global land-use change 2000–2010

F Creutzig, CB d'Amour, U Weddige, S Fuss… - Global …, 2019‏ - cambridge.org
Global land is turning into an increasingly scarce resource. We here present a
comprehensive assessment of co-occuring land-use change from 2000 until 2010 …

[HTML][HTML] Forest fragmentation and fires in the eastern Brazilian Amazon–Maranhão State, Brazil

CHL Silva-Junior, ATM Buna, DS Bezerra, OS Costa Jr… - Fire, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Tropical forests provide essential environmental services to human well-being. In the world,
Brazil has the largest continuous area of these forests. However, in the state of Maranhão, in …

Agroforestry systems recover tree carbon stock faster than natural succession in Eastern Amazon, Brazil

EG Cardozo, D Celentano, GX Rousseau… - Agroforestry …, 2022‏ - Springer
The potential of agroforestry systems (AFS) for atmospheric carbon sequestration in
degraded tropical lands is of key interest for climate change and rural development policies …