Agricultural Intensification Can Preserve the Brazilian Cerrado: Applying Lessons From Mato Grosso and Goiás to Brazil’s Last Agricultural Frontier
Agricultural Intensification Can Preserve the Brazilian Cerrado: Applying Lessons From Mato Grosso and Goiás to Brazil’s Last Agricultural Frontier
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农业集约化可以保护巴西塞拉多：将马托格罗索州和戈亚斯州的经验教训应用于巴西最后的农业前沿
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2017
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S. Spera
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粮食安全和气候变化是决定热带土地使用未来的两个紧迫问题。巴西拥有丰富的土地，富含碳、水和生物多样性，经常被清理用于农牧和可再生能源目的，是研究土地利用动态的社会经济和环境权衡的理想地点。在这里，我使用最近（2000-2016年）在马托格罗索州和戈亚斯州建立的农业国家的土地利用土地覆盖变化动态，以证明如何激励集约化农业实践和改善退化的牧场可能是一种手段，巴西可以增加农业生产，同时保护塞拉多的其余部分。然后，我讨论这些结果与农业扩展在农业边境地区的马托皮巴和简要强调上下文元素，需要考虑其他发展中热带国家期待巴西作为农业和经济发展的典范。
Food security and climate change are two pressing issues shaping the future of tropical land use. Brazil, home to abundant land that is rich in carbon, water, and biodiversity and often cleared for agropastoral and renewable energy purposes, is the ideal location for studying socioeconomic and environmental trade-offs of land use dynamics. Here, I use recent (2000–2016) land-use land-cover change dynamics in the established agricultural states of Mato Grosso and Goiás to demonstrate how incentivizing intensive agricultural practices and improving degraded pastures may be a means by which Brazil can increase agricultural production while conserving the remainder of the Cerrado. I then discuss these outcomes with regard to agricultural expansion in the agricultural frontier region of Matopiba and briefly highlight contextual elements that need to be considered by other developing tropical countries looking toward Brazil as a model for agricultural and economic development.