International policy commitments highlight the importance of balancing agricultural development with conservation of tropical forest landscapes for climate change mitigation (UNFCCC, 2015), biodiversity conservation (CBD, 2010), and generally sustainable development trajectories (UN, 2015). The Amazon basin has over the last decades become one of the major producer and exporter regions of agricultural commodities (Macedo et al., 2012) at the expense of rampant deforestation (Nepstad et al., 2014; Soares-Filho et al., 2006).
A Amazônia será ocupada
A Amazônia será ocupada
A revista Veja publicou entrevista realizada com o pesquisador associado do WHRC, David McGrath, que fala sobre sobre a ação do homem no ambiente amazônico.