Analysts usually estimate a crop’s carbon footprint based on country-level factors. But that formulation isn’t adequate, according to a new analysis of soy exports from Brazil. Published in Global Environmental Change, the study tracked soy from specific production sites in … Continue reading
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Country-level assessment hides big variations in soy’s carbon footprint
Categories: Agriculture | Climate science | Economic sciences | Environmental Sciences | Journal Club
Tagged Amazon rainforest, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, Cerrado, soybeans
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Journal Club: How traditional people tamed the Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest is often thought of as an untamed wilderness. But a growing number of studies, for example one in 2015 and another in 2017, show that local people have domesticated the forests for millennia, weaving patches of useful … Continue reading
Categories: Agriculture | Anthropology | Ecology | Journal Club | Sustainability Science
Tagged Amazon basin, Amazon rainforest, fruits, management practice, nuts
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