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This chapter will discuss Cerrado agriculture from an ecological and environmental perspective and analyze the sustainable development of agriculture and livestock in the tropical savannah biome. The first section presents an overview of biodiversity and environmental conservation efforts based in the Cerrado, especially in the 20 years following the Rio Summit in 1992 (βRio 92,β United Nations Conference on Environment and Development). Environmental conservation initiatives in the Japanese-Brazilian Cooperation Program for Cerrados Development (PRODECER) are then discussed in Section 5.2. It is worth noting that although this bilateral cooperation was conceived nearly 20 years prior to Rio 92, Brazil and Japan addressed environmental conservation as early as the first phase of PRODECER. In the following Section 5.3, the pattern of land use in the Cerrado is reviewed, drawing on Landsat satellite image information. From this analysis, it is estimated that 61 percent of the Cerrado remained as natural vegetation after more than two decades of intensive agricultural development.
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- Agricultural Development
- Amazon Region
- Environmental Conservation
- Amazon Rainforest
- Advance Land Observe Satellite
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Hosono, A., Hongo, Y. (2016). Cerrado Agriculture and the Environment. In: Hosono, A., da Rocha, C.M.C., Hongo, Y. (eds) Development for Sustainable Agriculture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431356_6
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