The Coupling of South American Soybean and Cattle Production Frontiers: New Challenges for Conservation Policy and Land Change Science

Conservation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 290-298

  Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio ^a   le Polain de Waroux, Yann ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agribusiness; Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Cattle; Displacement; Land use change; Paraguay; Soybeans; Telecoupling

Indexed keywords

BOS; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84940176726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12121     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Aide, T.M., Matthew, L., Clark, M.L., et al. (2013). Deforestation and reforestation of Latin America and the Caribbean (2001-2010). Biotropica, 45, 262-271.
2. Arima, E.Y., Richards, P., Walker, R. & Caldas, M.M. (2011). Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon. Environ. Res. Lett., 6, 024010.
3. Barona, E., Ramankutty, N., Hyman, G. & Coomes, O.T. (2010). The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. Environ. Res. Lett., 5, 024002.
4. Byerlee, D. (2013). Are we learning from history? Pages 21-44 in M. Kugelman, S.M. Levenstein, editors. The Global Farm Race: land grabs, agricultural investment, and the scramble for food security. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
5. FAO. (2014). FAOSTATS. Available from: http://faostat.fao.org/. Accessed 27 January 2014.
6. Galeno, L.A. (2012). Paraguay and the expansion of Brazilian and Argentinian agribusiness frontiers. Canadian J. Dev. Stud., 33, 458-470.
7. Garcia-Collazo, M.A, Panizza, A. & Paruelo, J.M. (2013). Ordenamiento Territorial de Bosques Nativos: resultados de la zonificación realizada por provincias del norte Argentino. Ecol. Aust., 23, 97-107.
8. Garret, R.D., Rueda, X. & Lambin, E.F. (2013). Globalizatiońs unexpected impact on soybean production in South America: linkages between preferences for non-genetically modified crops, eco-certifications, and land use. Environ. Res. Lett., 8, 044055.
9. Gasparri, N.I., Grau, H.R. & Angonese, J.G. (2013). Linkages between soybean and neotropical deforestation: coupling and transient decoupling dynamics in a multi-decadal analysis. Global Environ. Change, 23, 1605-1614.
10. Grau, H.R., Gasparri, N.I. & Aide, T.M. (2005). Agriculture expansion and deforestation in seasonally dry forests of north-west Argentina. Environ. Conserv., 32, 140-148.
11. Hansen, M.C., Potapov, P.V., Moore, R., et al. (2013). High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change. Science, 342, 850-853.
12. Liu, J., Hull, V., Batistella, M., et al. (2013). Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecol. Soc., 18, 26
13. Macedo, M.N., DeFries, R.S., Morton, D.C., Stickler, C.M., Galford, G.L. & Shimabukuro, Y.E. (2012). Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 109, 1341-1346.
14. Meyfroidt, P., Lambin, E.F., Karl-Heinz, E. & Hertel, T.W. (2013). Globaliztion of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use. Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain., 5, 438-444.
15. Morton, D.C., DeFries, R.S., Shimabukuro, Y.E., et al. (2006). Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103, 14637-14641.
16. Nepstad, D.C., Stickler, C.M. & Almeida, O.T. (2006). Globalization of the Amazon soy and beef industries: opportunities for conservation. Conserv. Biol., 20, 1595-1603.
17. Reydon, B.P. & Fernandes, V.B. (2013). Regional perspectives: Latin America. Pages 153-168 in M. Kugelman, S.M. Levenstein, editors. The Global Farm Race: land grabs, agricultural investment, and the scramble for food security. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
18. RTRS. (2014). Round Table on Responsible Soy Association. Available from: http://www.responsiblesoy.org/index.php?lang=es. Accessed 27 January 2014.
19. Sikor, T., Auld, G., Bebbington, A.J., et al. (2013). Global land governance: from territory to flow? Curr. Opin. Environ. Sustain., 5, 522-527.
20. Urioste, M.T. (2012). Concentration and "foreignisation" of land in Bolivia. Can. J. Dev. Stud., 33, 439-457.
21. WWF. (2014). Ley de deforestación cero: moratoria para el cambio de uso de la tierra. Available from: http://www.wwf.org.py/que_hacemos/politicas_publicas/deforestacion/. Accessed 27 January 2014.