With unique data, researchers track the effect of Brazil's 'Soy Moratorium' on an advancing agricultural frontier

Friday, April 28, 2017 - 14:02 in Mathematics & Economics

The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso produces enough soybeans to be the equivalent of Iowa and Illinois put together. But it also plays home to lush Amazon rain forest, one of the richest, and most vulnerable, ecological treasures on our planet.

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