Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000

Brazil has become a global leader in the production of commodity row crops such as soybean, sugarcane, cotton, and corn. Here, we report an increase in Brazilian cropland extent from 26.0 Mha in 2000 to 46.1 Mha in 2014. The states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí, Bahia (collectively MATOPIBA), Mato G...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2019-01, Vol.116 (2), p.428-435
Main Authors: Zalles, Viviana, Hansen, Matthew C., Potapov, Peter V., Stehman, Stephen V., Tyukavina, Alexandra, Pickens, Amy, Song, Xiao-Peng, Adusei, Bernard, Okpa, Chima, Aguilar, Ricardo, John, Nicholas, Chavez, Selena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural land
Agricultural production
Brazil
Conservation of Natural Resources
Corn
Cotton
Crop Production
Crops
Economic conditions
Environmental Sciences
Humans
Land use
Natural vegetation
Pasture
Physical Sciences
PNAS Plus
Rainforest
Remote sensing
Savannahs
Soybeans
Sugarcane
Sustainability Science
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