International policy commitments highlight the importance of balancing agricultural development with conservation of tropical forest landscapes for climate change mitigation (UNFCCC, 2015), biodiversity conservation (CBD, 2010), and generally sustainable development trajectories (UN, 2015). The Amazon basin has over the last decades become one of the major producer and exporter regions of agricultural commodities (Macedo et al., 2012) at the expense of rampant deforestation (Nepstad et al., 2014; Soares-Filho et al., 2006).
Deforestation in Mato Grosso's Amazon forest (Prodes/2015): characteristics, current policies and what needs to be done
Deforestation in Mato Grosso's Amazon forest (Prodes/2015): characteristics, current policies and what needs to be done
IPAM and ICV present an analysis of clear-cutting trends detected by the official Amazon deforestation system, Prodes, between August 2014 and July 2015, plus an evaluation of control measures taken by State and federal governments.