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Agrarian settlements drive severe tropical deforestation across the Amazon
https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/-/agrarian-settlements-drive-severe-tropical-deforestation-across-the-amazon[font face=Serif][font size=5]Agrarian settlements drive severe tropical deforestation across the Amazon[/font]
[font size=4]Resettlement projects in the Amazon are driving severe tropical deforestation – according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Câmara dos Deputados (the Brazilian Lower House).[/font]
[font size=3]Widely hailed as a socially responsible and ‘innocuous’ strategy of land redistribution, agrarian reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale.
But a study published today in PLOS ONE reveals that these farmer resettlement projects are far from environmentally friendly or socio-economically beneficial.
The research shows the drastic effects of nearly 2,000 agrarian settlement areas on deforestation and forest degradation in the world’s largest tropical forest region.
It reveals that these settlement areas, which amount to 5.3 per cent of the 5 million km2 Brazilian Amazon, have contributed to 13.5 per cent of all deforestation mapped to date.
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[font size=4]Resettlement projects in the Amazon are driving severe tropical deforestation – according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Câmara dos Deputados (the Brazilian Lower House).[/font]
[font size=3]Widely hailed as a socially responsible and ‘innocuous’ strategy of land redistribution, agrarian reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale.
But a study published today in PLOS ONE reveals that these farmer resettlement projects are far from environmentally friendly or socio-economically beneficial.
The research shows the drastic effects of nearly 2,000 agrarian settlement areas on deforestation and forest degradation in the world’s largest tropical forest region.
It reveals that these settlement areas, which amount to 5.3 per cent of the 5 million km2 Brazilian Amazon, have contributed to 13.5 per cent of all deforestation mapped to date.
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