Volume: 5

Organizador: Christopher A. Scott , Rui Carlos Vieira Da Silva, Carlos Eduardo Morelli Tucci

Autor: Rui Carlos Vieira Da Silva, Carlos Eduardo Morelli Tucci, Christopher A. Scott

ISBN: 978-85-8868-641-0

 
As the global demand for agricultural products (such as food and biofuel) grows at an unprecedented pace, the current area of arable land becomes a limiting factor, driving farmland expansion around the world. In Brazil, areas of undisturbed forest and savanna have been converted to farmland, and there is little evidence that agricultural expansion will decrease. While agribusiness is the country?s main economic sector, most of the production takes place in the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado) biome.

 
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