Brazil

A better Amazon road network for people and the environment

Journal article / Which road projects offer high economic benefits combined with low environmental and social impacts?

Mapping three decades of changes in the Brazilian savanna native vegetation using Landsat data processed in the Google Earth Engine platform

Journal article / Read an assessment of 30 years of change to native vegetation in Brazil's Cerrado.

Sustainability gridlock in a global agricultural commodity chain: Reframing the soy–meat food system

Journal article

Using supply chain data to monitor zero deforestation commitments: an assessment of progress in the Brazilian soy sector

Journal article / Evaluating Zero Deforestation Commitments (ZDCs) for global supply chains of Brazilian soy.

Electrification and the bioeconomy: three sides to the story

SEI brief / In what ways does the bioeconomy interact with the rapid developments in wind, solar and storage?

Solving Brazil’s land use puzzle: Increasing production and slowing Amazon deforestation

Journal article / Four ways that Brazil could reclaim leadership in sustainable agricultural leadership by increasing output while curbing deforestation.

From the savannah to the supermarket – new study links consumption to specific biodiversity impacts in the Cerrado

Feature / A new paper describes a breakthrough in linking final consumption to localized biodiversity impacts in the Brazilian Cerrado.

Consumer markets and companies linked to habitat loss for rare species in Brazil’s savannah: new paper

Press release / Consumer markets and companies linked to habitat loss for rare species in Brazil’s savannah: new paper

Brazilian beef trade’s links to deforestation revealed by transparency tool

Press release / Demand for Brazilian beef led to the loss of 580 000 hectares of tropical rainforest a year between 2015 and 2017, as revealed by new data published on Trase.