Brazil’s planned exploitation of Amazonian indigenous lands for commercial agriculture increases risk of new pandemics

We report the emergence of a new production chain for commercial food that aims to maximize profit to the detriment of the environment and traditional communities in the Amazonian region. In addition, the combination of environmental impact and the raising of confined animals (including pigs and pou...

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Autores principales: Ferrante, Lucas, Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio, Duczmal, Luiz, Fearnside, Philip Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34426726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01819-6
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spelling pubmed-83722212021-08-19 Brazil’s planned exploitation of Amazonian indigenous lands for commercial agriculture increases risk of new pandemics Ferrante, Lucas Barbosa, Reinaldo Imbrozio Duczmal, Luiz Fearnside, Philip Martin Reg Environ Change Short Communication We report the emergence of a new production chain for commercial food that aims to maximize profit to the detriment of the environment and traditional communities in the Amazonian region. In addition, the combination of environmental impact and the raising of confined animals (including pigs and poultry), in locations where the animals may have contact with other diseases carries the danger of generating a new pandemic of worldwide proportions. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-08-18 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8372221/ /pubmed/34426726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01819-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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