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Race to save the Amazon leaves out Brazil's crucial savanna
AFP, Published on 20/10/2023
» SãO DESIDéRIO (BRAZIL) - People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered "sterile" land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says.
EU agrees ban on imports driving deforestation
AFP, Published on 06/12/2022
» BRUSSELS: The European Union reached an agreement Tuesday to ban the import of products including coffee, cocoa and soy in cases where they are deemed to contribute to deforestation.
Deforestation climbs in Brazil's savanna
Published on 05/01/2022
» Deforestation last year rose to the highest level since 2015 in Brazil's Cerrado, prompting scientists to raise alarm over the state of the world's most species-rich savanna. - REUTERS
Forest loss 'hotspots' bigger than Germany: WWF
AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» PARIS: More than 43 million hectares -- an area bigger than Germany -- of forest have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hotspots, conservation organisation WWF said Wednesday.
As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns
AFP, Published on 22/09/2019
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames.
The trade war could be fuelling the Amazon fires
News, David Fickling, Published on 26/08/2019
» The fires currently consuming Brazil's Amazon rainforest seem a world away from the tense diplomacy in the US trade war with China. In truth, they're more closely connected than you might suspect.
Global appetite for beef, soy fuels Amazon fires
AFP, Published on 25/08/2019
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Two of the industries involved in the infernos consuming the Amazon rainforest and drawing the attention of global powers gathered at the G7 meeting in France are familiar to diners worldwide: soy and beef.
China demand fuels record soy crops in South America
AFP, Published on 17/09/2013
» Soy fields stretch as far as the eye can see in South America's fertile plains, boosted by a jump in demand from China and Europe.
Feeding the world a complex process
News, Published on 23/07/2013
» In the Mekong Delta, farmers harvest 6-7 tonnes of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4-5 tonnes per hectare in wet seasons, using fast-maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually.
Brazil eyes cloning to bolster endangered species
AFP, Published on 15/11/2012
» Scientists in Brazil will try cloning endangered animal species like the jaguar, a researcher said Wednesday.