Brazilian Cerrado and Soy moratorium: Effects on biome preservation and consequences on grain production

Magalhães, Iara Barbosa; Pereira, Alexia Saleme Aona de Paula; Calijuri, Maria Lúcia; Alves, Sabrina do Carmo; Santos, Vitor Juste dos; Lorentz, Juliana Ferreira

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105030

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“…From indicator 19, diesel is the usual fuel used in buses and trucks in Brazil, and the price has become more expensive due to the increase in the US Dollar concerning the Brazilian Real in recent years (Hillier & Loncan, 2019). As Brazilian agriculture is one of the world's most advanced sectors and the country is an active food exporter (Magalhães et al, 2020), the agricultural productivity (indicator 20) advanced year by year.…”

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Measuring the Impact of Brazilian Transport Systems on the 2030 Agenda Goals

Meira¹,

Amorim²,

Oliveira³

et al. 2021

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This paper aims to propose indicators to measure Brazilian transport systems' impact on meeting the 2030 Agenda and to analyze advances of Brazilian transport systems in terms of sustainable development over the last decade. The proposed indicators were based on a literature review and data availability. Time series data (2010-2019) were obtained to analyze the situation of Brazil. From 27 proposed indicators, only 12 showed some evolution based on the before-after method, relating to improvements in cleaner transport modes, such as railways and waterways, in exclusive lanes for public transport, and in improving active transport infrastructure. This scenario presents Brazil's challenges over the next ten years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the 2030 Agenda. Results reinforce the importance of the transport sector to contribute to the world's sustainable development. Therefore, this paper contributes to improving the analysis hereafter of this thematic.

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Measuring the Impact of Brazilian Transport Systems on the 2030 Agenda Goals

Meira¹,

Amorim²,

Oliveira³

et al. 2021

JSD

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“…Elsewhere, Almeida reinforces this separation of farmer from farm, writing that "The arid environment of soybean farming, composed of metallic warehouse structures, sophisticated machinery, urban routines related to business, the not very athletic body of the planters, and the taste for living in the city" add to the strangeness of these men calling themselves farmers (Almeida 2021:17). The shift toward industrial agriculture in the region is the product of extensive agricultural research into soybean cultivars well-suited to tropical latitudes and soil management and governmental financial support for farming intensification (Calmon 2020;Magalhães et al 2020). Characterized as "maldevelopment" it is an exclusive rural development justified in terms of macroeconomic indicators, but at the cost of land and water degradation, resource dispossession (Russo Lopes, Bastos Lima, and dos Reis 2021).…”

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Tidy Fields and Clean Shirts: A Comparative Ethnography of Good Farming in South Dakota and Luis Eduardo Magalhães

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2022

Culture Agric Food & Envi

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North American farmers manage massive soy farms in the Brazilian Cerrado from the clean offices off the dusty streets of Luis Eduardo Magalhães, Brazil. As they delegate field work to farmworkers, they focus on paperwork, managing investment capital, and satisfying the investors that control that capital. This comparative ethnographic article considers the agrarian values and farm life of the author's childhood on a small South Dakota farm alongside the experience of transnational soybean farmers in Brazil to understand the perception of good farming in two different contexts. This imaginary of the good farmer tells us about what behaviors are rewarded within farming communities and how farming behaviors become idealized. While “good farming” in 1980s South Dakota was measured by straight rows, high crop yields, and weed‐free fields, good farming for transnational farmers is measured by efficiency, profit, and clean shirts. Transnational farmers center the farmer, not the field, as the site of aestheticizing as they disassociate from crops, work, and even land.

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“…Once the model was validated, the next step was to generate the LULC map for 2030. The Change Prediction tab concludes the analysis, by defining a prediction year (Magalhães et al 2020).…”

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Projection of land use to 2030 and its impacts on water availability in a brazilian sub-basin: A LCM and SWAT approach

Oliveira

Gracelli

Silva

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Changes in land use and land cover (LULC) can result in significant changes in a hydrographic ba- sin flow regime. Future projections about LULC and its interference with water availability help to identify extreme events in advance and help propose appropriate management measures. Thus, this study aimed to make the LULC projection for the year 2030 for the Alto Rio Grande (ARG) sub- basin, located in Southeastern Brazil. This region was chosen because of its intense water resources use and for having recently faced water scarcity as result of prolonged droughts and inadequate water resources management. To identify the LULC trend for the year 2030, the Land Change Modeler (LCM) was used, the map obtained was inserted in the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model previously calibrated and validated for the region’ environmental and climatic conditions. The ARG sub-basin was affected by heavy rains in 2011, which resulted in changes in the landscape due to landslides. This particularity of the region contributed to the projection of LULC for the year 2030 to present an increase in forest and pastures to the agricultural areas detriment. When evaluating the impacts of these changes in water availability, it was observed that the SWAT model presented, for the same rainfall conditions, a reduction in peak streamflows of up to 59% and a reduction in the average monthly flow of up to 63% in 2030 in relation to the LULC observed in 2017. Thus, this study provides an important contribution by identifying a considerable reduction in water availability. These results will help to formulate strategies for water resources management and the adoption of measures to promote water security in the region.

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Brazilian Cerrado and Soy moratorium: Effects on biome preservation and consequences on grain production

Cited by 25 publications

References 17 publications

Measuring the Impact of Brazilian Transport Systems on the 2030 Agenda Goals

Measuring the Impact of Brazilian Transport Systems on the 2030 Agenda Goals

Tidy Fields and Clean Shirts: A Comparative Ethnography of Good Farming in South Dakota and Luis Eduardo Magalhães

Projection of land use to 2030 and its impacts on water availability in a brazilian sub-basin: A LCM and SWAT approach

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