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Agrarian settlements drive severe tropical deforestation across the Amazon

2015-08-01 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Resettlement projects in the Amazon are driving severe tropical deforestation -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Cāmara dos Deputados (the Brazilian Lower House). Widely hailed as a socially responsible and 'innocuous' strategy of land redistribution, agrarian reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale. But a study published in PLOS ONE reveals that these farmer resettlement projects are far...

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