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

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 …

Over the past 50 years, food systems worldwide have shifted from predominantly rural to
industrialized and consolidated systems, with impacts on diets, nutrition and health …

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 …

In an increasingly interconnected world, human–environment interactions involving flows of
people, organisms, goods, information, and energy are expanding in magnitude and extent …

South America's tropical dry forests and savannas are under increasing pressure from
agricultural expansion. Cattle ranching and soybean production both drive these forest …

Processes of agricultural expansion and retreat have provoked an emerging global debate
and driven more focused research, due to its socio-environmental consequences. This …

Assessing changes in the extent and management intensity of land use is crucial to
understanding land-system dynamics and their environmental and social outcomes. Yet …

Agricultural intensification, an increase in per-area productivity, may spare forests otherwise
lost to agricultural expansion. Yet which conditions enable such sparing or whether …

Agricultural expansion and intensification in South America's dry forests and grasslands
increase agricultural production, but also result in major environmental trade-offs. The …