Land quality, deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 11:22
in Earth & Climate
In the last decade, Brazil's skyrocketing agricultural production worried some observers who were concerned about the loss of forestland. Land-use policies appeared to slow that process, but other factors may have been at work. New research suggests that land best suited for agricultural production may already have been converted to cropland.