The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South-South Telecouplings

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-31

  Gasparri, Nestor Ignacio ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^b   Meyfroidt, Patrick ^c   le Polain de Waroux, Yann ^d   Kreft, Holger ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agribusiness; Cattle; Dry forest; Land use change; Savannas; Soybeans; Telecoupling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958848888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12173     Document Type: Letter

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