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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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Transformaciones agrícolas y despoblamiento en las comunidades rurales de la Región Pampeana Argentina
TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize the historical process of agricultural development in the Pampas and examine the main features of the rural depopulation process by defining four historical stages, according to four criteria that point out particular aspects in them: external economic conditions; domestic economic policy framework; the behaviour of the factors of production and innovation; and the urban-rural demographic changes.
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Status of Beef Cattle Production in Argentina Over the Last Decade and Its Prospects
J.C. Guevara,E.G. Grünwaldt +1 more
TL;DR: Guevara and Grunwaldt as discussed by the authors described the status of Beef Cattle Production in Argentina over the last decade and its Prospects and provided an open access chapter under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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