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Searching with a thematic focus on Climate change, Agriculture and food in Brazil

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  Amazonian farmers’ response to fire policies and climate change

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  Despite a fall in deforestation, frequency and severity of fires in the Brazilian Amazon are rising, causing huge carbon emissions, biodiversity losses and local economic costs. The ignition sources are anthropogenic and mostly related to the accidental spread of agricultural fires.
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  Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Cattle ranching in Brazil is a key driver of deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Brazilian government plans to reduce national GHG emissions by at least 36%, partly by reducing emissions in the livestock sector through strategies such as intensification, pasture improvement, and rotational grazing.
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  How Brazil's sustainable cattle schemes could beef up to conserve forests and sustainable rural livelihoods

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Cattle ranching is the largest driver of Brazilian deforestation, a relevant emitter of greenhousegases, and an important source of local livelihoods. In response, many initiatives attempt to render Brazil’s beef production more environmentally and socially sustainable.
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  Transitioning to more sustainable, low-emissions agriculture in Brazil

  Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2016

  Sustainability, traceability, and branding for final consumers have been a component of market development of coffee for two decades in Brazil, but only just started in the beef sector. Sustainability initiatives for coffee have enjoyed high price premiums and support from cooperatives to make this possible. Efforts in the cattle and beef sector are more recent and still in a pilot phase.
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  Climate change and impacts on family farming in the North and Northeast of Brazil

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2015

  Climate change has increasingly been recognised as the main challenge facing humanity in the coming decades. The starting point of this study is the consideration of future climate change scenarios and the uncertainties they bring. 
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  Climate change and impacts on family farming in the North and Northeast of Brazil

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2016

  The starting point for this study was the consideration of future climate change scenarios and their uncertainties. In assessing the possible climate change scenarios and related impacts on family farming across Brazil’s North and Northeast regions, the main conclusion is that smallholder farmers will have to adapt to a world of increasing climate variability.
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  Changing climate, changing diets: pathways to lower meat consumption

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2015

  Demand for animal protein is growing. Global consumption of meat is forecast to increase 76 per cent on recent levels by mid-century. A ‘protein transition’ is playing out across the developing world: as incomes rise, consumption of meat is increasing. In the developed world, per capita demand for meat has reached a plateau, but at excessive levels.
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  Human rights and resource conflicts in the Amazon

  Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2015

  The Amazon comprises the largest tract of tropical rainforest in the world. Numerous indigenous peoples have traditionally inhabited this region, and 25 percent of its total land area is formally recognised as indigenous territories. Such territories are an effective means of protecting the forest.
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  Towards efficient land use in Brazil

  Climate Policy Initiative, 2015

  This report focuses on the promotion of economic growth and improving ecosystem protection within Brazil’s rural landscape.
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  Subsidies to key commodities driving forest loss

  Overseas Development Institute, 2015

  This working paper argues that there is an increasing focus on the role that public and private resources can play in supporting activities that reduce forest loss as part of wider efforts to address climate change, and ensure sustainable development.

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