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Modifying Argentina: GM soy and socio-environmental change
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In this article, the authors examine Argentina's agro-export strategy for socioeconomic development based on the adoption and expansion of genetically modified (GM) soy and argue that the GM soy-based agroexport model as currently configured in Argentina is a socially and ecologically unsustainable model of national development.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2014-05-01. It has received 142 citations till now.read more
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Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets
Robert J. Zomer,Henry Neufeldt,Jianchu Xu,Antje Ahrends,Deborah A. Bossio,Antonio Trabucco,Meine van Noordwijk,Mingcheng Wang +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the role of trees on agricultural land and their significance for carbon sequestration at a global level, along with recent change trends, finding that 43% of all agricultural land globally had at least 10% tree cover and that this has increased by 2% over the previous ten years.
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Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land
Robert J. Zomer,Henry Neufeldt,Jianchu Xu,Antje Ahrends,Deborah A. Bossio,Antonio Trabucco,Van Meine Noordwijk,Mingcheng Wang +7 more
TL;DR: Brazil, Indonesia, China and India had the largest increases in biomass carbon stored on agricultural land, while Argentina, Myanmar, and Sierra Leone had thelargest decreases.
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Cropland/pastureland dynamics and the slowdown of deforestation in Latin America
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery to characterize cropland and pastureland expansion at multiple scales across Latin America.
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The role of soybean production as an underlying driver of deforestation in the South American Chaco
Verena Fehlenberg,Matthias Baumann,Nestor Ignacio Gasparri,Nestor Ignacio Gasparri,María Piquer-Rodríguez,Gregorio I. Gavier-Pizarro,Tobias Kuemmerle +6 more
TL;DR: The authors used panel regressions at the district level to quantify the role of soybean expansion in driving these forest losses using a wide range of environmental and socio-economic control variables, finding that soybean production was a direct driver of deforestation in the Argentine Chaco only, whereas cattle ranching was significantly associated with deforestation in all three countries (0.02 additional cattle per hectare forest loss).
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Cuestiones económico-ambientales de las transformaciones agrícolas en las pampas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on an analysis of the evolution and situation of soil nutrients, as an indicator of the loss of environmental social and economic quality in the River Lujan Basin of Argentina, where the incorporation of direct sowing as a conservationist practice, together with its associated package of glyphosate herbicide and the cultivation of genetically-modified soy are the pillars on which this model is concentrated.
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GMOs and their contexts: A comparison of potential and actual performance of GM crops in a local agricultural setting
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study investigating the use of insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant GM cotton in the cotton-growing region of New South Wales in Australia is presented.
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Deforestación, expansión agropecuaria y dinámica demográfica en el Chaco Seco Argentino durante la década de los noventa
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent of deforestation and the impact of agricultural frontier expansion (especially from soybeans) on demographic dynamics of the area is analyzed. But the changes currently occurring in relation to the advancement of the agricultural frontier are altering the demographic dynamics in local populations.
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Contratistas, cambios tecnológicos y organizacionales en el agro argentino
TL;DR: Bisang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between contratistas and the agropecuarias in the context of a nueva forma of organización, donde, en conjunto con los productores, con la industria and los servicios, conforman and trabajan en forma de red.
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