The Cerrado is one huge, interconnected biome composed of a dozen varieties of smaller ecosystems, ranging from open grassland to dense, full-size woods. Driving deeper in, some 150 miles from ...

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples ...

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

For decades, huge swaths of Brazil’s Cerrado ecosystem have been used to support the global demand for burgers. Forests and grasslands were replaced by pastures along with farms growing soy to ...

Medici leads the Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative which works in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, Pantanal wetlands, Cerrado grasslands and, since 2022, the Amazon to protect these animals ...

Grasslands — also known as prairies ... But they are often left out of global conversations: for example, the Cerrado savanna in Brazil is home to a third of the country’s species and 4,000 ...

when it comes to the Cerrado, the legislation is flawed because just 26% of the region is considered forest. The rest is classified as other wooded land (OWL) and grassland, which isn't protected ...

and grassland. The savannah formations of the cerrado—which make up 62 percent of the biome’s vegetation—accounted for 88 million tons of CO2 (65%) emitted in the period. The burning of ...

They include vast areas of the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands, as well as the Cerrado grasslands and the Atlantic forests along the country’s eastern coast.