By 2013, agriculture had occupied 2.5 million hectares. Three quarters of the expansion in agricultural areas took place on lands once covered by native vegetation, almost all of it Cerrado. Also ...

As the agriculture frontier expands, and legal protections remain weak, a host of international, national and regional environmental NGOs have stepped up to try and protect the Cerrado.

The Cerrado has been hailed as the cradle of an agricultural modernisation project that started in the 1970s and turned Brazil into a global agri-food giant. The so-called ‘miracle of the Cerrado’ is ...

Soil loss was approximately 0.01 millimeters (mm) per year, close to the level observed in other areas of Cerrado. In areas converted for pasture or agriculture, the erosion rate was up to 1.6 mm per ...

On today’s episode: the impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region. Brazil’s Cerrado region is incredibly biodiverse, supporting more than 10,000 plant species, 900 birds, and 300 ...

Verde Potash (TSXV: NKP) is working on developing the Cerrado Verde project in the country’s cerrado agriculture region in the Minas Gerais state. The region is the hub for sugarcane and ...

Deforestation in Brazil’s ecologically sensitive Cerrado biome increased by 43 per cent last year, according to official data that cast a pall over the government’s success in reducing ...

Brazilian farmers see the Cerrado’s development as critical to global food security and the prosperity of their nation and agriculture sector (which grew 13% in 2017).

The Cerrado, known as an upside-down forest for its deep root network, has lost half of its native vegetation to agricultural expansion.

llycaffè celebrates International Coffee Day by presenting Arabica Selection Brazil Cerrado Mineiro, the first coffee from regenerative agriculture and regenagri® certified, created together with the ...