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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December 10, 2020

Webinar materials now available for "Socio-Ecological Land Systems of South America"

The webinar recording, presentations and additional materials for the GLP Social-Ecological Land Systems of Latin America (LASELS) Working Group (LASELS)'s first webinar are now available.

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December 8, 2020

The origin, supply chain, and deforestation risk of Brazil’s beef exports

A new article in PNAS brings together detailed data on trade, agriculture, and logistics to produce a subnational map of the origin of Brazil’s exports of beef, offal, and live cattle. The work gives an unprecedented insight into the origin of food and impacts embedded in global supply chains.

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October 18, 2020

Alli Kawsay: Epistemology and Political Practice in the Territories, a Possibility from the Andean Pluriverse for Ecological Justice and the Care of Mother Nature

This chapter from The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies presents the Alli Kawsay (Buen Vivir) and its political, cultural, and epistemic options that offer the possibility to work collectively in favor of our ‘Mother Nature.’ 

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September 24, 2020

Private-land control and deforestation dynamics in the context of implementing the Native Forest Law in the Northern Argentinian Dry Chaco

A novel remote-sensing application can serve as an early-warning tool for deforestation.

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