Latin America Nodal Office

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER)
ignacio.gasparri@gmail.com

+54 381 4255174

Universidad Nacional de Tucumán – CONICET
IER-LIEY
CC 34
4107 Yerba Buena Tucumán
Argentina

Focus on: Latin American land use change in relation to globalization; environmental services in land use frontiers and transitional zone; land use efficiency and conflicts.
The nodal office is hosted by the Instituto de Ecologia Regional (UNT_CONICET)
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January 20, 2023

Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade

A new article in Global Environmental Change identifies factors determining local stickiness in Brazil's soy supply chain.

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November 12, 2022

Leakage does not fully offset soy supply-chain efforts to reduce deforestation in Brazil

A new article in Nature Communications shows eliminating deforestation from the supply chains of all firms exporting Brazilian soy to the EU or China from 2011-2016 could have reduced net global deforestation by 2% and Brazilian deforestation by 9%. 

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November 12, 2022

Gaps in adoption and implementation limit the current and potential effectiveness of zero-deforestation supply chain policies for soy

A new article in Environmental Research Letters leverages timeseries of spatially explicit corporate commodity sourcing data and ZDCs to assess the current and potential effect of ZDCs within soybean supply chains on forest loss and biodiversity. 

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October 26, 2022

Understanding deforestation lock-in: Insights from Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon

A new paper in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change innovatively applies transitions theory to the problem of land-use change and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

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