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Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil
Brazil is a megadiversity country with more tropical forest than any other, and is a leading agricultural producer. The technical potential to reconcile these roles by concentrating agriculture on existing farmland and sparing land for nature is well-established, but the spatial overlap of this pote...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32029788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58770-5 |
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author | dos Santos, Juliana Silveira Feltran-Barbieri, Rafael Fonte, Ellen S. Balmford, Andrew Maioli, Veronica Latawiec, Agnieszka Strassburg, Bernardo B. N. Phalan, Benjamin T. |
author_facet | dos Santos, Juliana Silveira Feltran-Barbieri, Rafael Fonte, Ellen S. Balmford, Andrew Maioli, Veronica Latawiec, Agnieszka Strassburg, Bernardo B. N. Phalan, Benjamin T. |
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description | Brazil is a megadiversity country with more tropical forest than any other, and is a leading agricultural producer. The technical potential to reconcile these roles by concentrating agriculture on existing farmland and sparing land for nature is well-established, but the spatial overlap of this potential with conservation priorities and institutional constraints remains poorly understood. We mapped conservation priorities, food production potential and socio-economic variables likely to influence the success of land sparing. Pasture occupies 70% of agricultural land but contributes ≤11% of the domestic food supply. Increasing yields on pasture would add little to Brazil’s food supply but – if combined with concerted conservation and restoration policies – provides the greatest opportunities for reducing land demand. Our study illustrates a method for identifying municipalities where land-sparing policies are most likely to succeed, and those where further effort is needed to overcome constraints such as land tenure insecurity, lack of access to technical advice, labour constraints, and non-compliance with environmental law. |
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spelling | pubmed-70053212020-02-18 Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil dos Santos, Juliana Silveira Feltran-Barbieri, Rafael Fonte, Ellen S. Balmford, Andrew Maioli, Veronica Latawiec, Agnieszka Strassburg, Bernardo B. N. Phalan, Benjamin T. Sci Rep Article Brazil is a megadiversity country with more tropical forest than any other, and is a leading agricultural producer. The technical potential to reconcile these roles by concentrating agriculture on existing farmland and sparing land for nature is well-established, but the spatial overlap of this potential with conservation priorities and institutional constraints remains poorly understood. We mapped conservation priorities, food production potential and socio-economic variables likely to influence the success of land sparing. Pasture occupies 70% of agricultural land but contributes ≤11% of the domestic food supply. Increasing yields on pasture would add little to Brazil’s food supply but – if combined with concerted conservation and restoration policies – provides the greatest opportunities for reducing land demand. Our study illustrates a method for identifying municipalities where land-sparing policies are most likely to succeed, and those where further effort is needed to overcome constraints such as land tenure insecurity, lack of access to technical advice, labour constraints, and non-compliance with environmental law. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7005321/ /pubmed/32029788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58770-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article dos Santos, Juliana Silveira Feltran-Barbieri, Rafael Fonte, Ellen S. Balmford, Andrew Maioli, Veronica Latawiec, Agnieszka Strassburg, Bernardo B. N. Phalan, Benjamin T. Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil |
title | Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil |
title_full | Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil |
title_fullStr | Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil |
title_short | Characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in Brazil |
title_sort | characterising the spatial distribution of opportunities and constraints for land sparing in brazil |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005321/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32029788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58770-5 |
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