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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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Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline the causes of environmental degradation, the limits of environmental protection policies, and the failures of institutional decision-makers to protect human well-being in the global South.
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The meaning of sustainable development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the issues of theory and divergent intellectual tradition, and consider the problems and possibilities of reaching agreement between the countries of the North and those of the South.
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Transgenic Crops in Argentina: The Ecological and Social Debt
TL;DR: The most important crop for Argentina is the soybean, with a planted surface that rose 11,000,000 hectares and a production of around 35, 000,000 metric tons.
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Bio-Hegemony: The Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology in Argentina
TL;DR: The authors examines relations between the state and capital in Argentina with respect to agricultural biotechnology and reveals both of the extent and forms of corporate power and contributes to an understanding of hegemony in practice.
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