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Forests are some of the planet's most critical ecosystems, acting as carbon sinks, biomass factories and homes to rich biodiversity. SEI research looks at the impacts of land-use change and how to combine forest protection with the growing demand for land, food, energy and green space.

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Governing bioeconomy pathways

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SIANI: Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative

SIANI

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Trucks carrying soy, Brazil

A breakthrough in carbon footprinting for agricultural commodities

A new approach to life cycle analysis can calculate precise footprints for thousands of individual commodity trade flows from source locality to export market.

Feature
Climate
Land
Economy
Air
3 July 2020
Brazil

Cattle herding in Boquete, Panama

Trase Yearbook reveals the state of forest-risk commodity supply chains

Trase initiative launches its 2020 review of commodity deforestation, supply chains and zero-deforestation commitments.

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Mist over Amazon forest. Avigator / iStock / Getty Images

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

Journal articles
Land
2 December 2019
Brazil
Amazon

Soy and environmental compliance in Brazil: An undervalued risk for global markets

Other publications
Land
Economy
12 November 2019

Kaempfer's woodpecker Celeus obrieni

Linking global drivers of agricultural trade to on-the-ground impacts on biodiversity

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

Why land-based mitigation is key to net-zero emissions

Tracking cattle deforestation risk in the Amazon and the Cerrado – a breakthrough in transparency

Feature
Economy
Land
17 September 2019
Brazil

Trucks

Fossil free freight transport system

Project
Climate
Energy
Land
2019 - 2020
Sweden

Who owns Brazilian lands?

Journal articles
Land
26 August 2019
Brazil

International spillovers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Examining wood-energy systems with integrated assessment and landscape models

Truck traveling in the middle of a soybean plantation in R6 or R7 stage

Tracking China’s soy footprint in Brazil

Media coverage
Economy
Land
16 April 2019
Brazil

Rainforest lakes in the shape of world continents.

Study links EU diet to deforestation footprint in the tropics

Tropical deforestation accounted for a sixth of the carbon footprint of the average EU diet in 2010–2014. Photo of tropical deforestation

How trade helps drive tropical deforestation

Feature
Land
Economy
Climate
8 April 2019

Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments

Journal articles
Land
Economy
2 April 2019

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