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  • Can the explosive growth of intensive agriculture in Brazil provide a model for feeding a growing world population, without destroying the environment?

March 8, Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute

   8:45Welcome and opening remarks
   9:00Jack Mustard, Brown University
  • Increasing intensification of agriculture in Mato Grosso: Implications for Land Sparing and CO2 emissions

    •    9:30Ruth DeFries, Columbia University

  • Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s

    • 10:00Paulo Brando, IPAM (Amazon Env. Research Inst.)

  • Ecological effects of land use change in Amazonia: How to feed the world and prevent a forest dieback?

    • 10:20Coffee break
    10:45Marcia Macedo, Columbia University

  • Stream impacts of the transition to soy agriculture in Mato Grosso

    • 11:10Rachael Garrett, Stanford University

  • Supply chains, land institutions, and the evolution of soy production systems in the Brazilian Amazon

    • 11:35Lisa Rausch, University of Kansas

  • At the nexus of production and conservation in Lucas do Rio Verde, Mato Grosso

    • 12:00Avery Cohn, University of California – Berkeley

  • Trade can increase GHG Benefits from cattle ranching intensification in Brazil

    • 12:30Lunch break

       1:30Bernardo Rudorff, INPE

  • Monitoring of the sugarcane crop for sustainable biofuel production using remote sensing images
  • Monitoring of soybean plantations in the Amazon biome within the Soy Moratorium context
  • Land use change in Nova Mutum, Mato Grosso, Brazil

    •    2:15Laerte Guimaraes Ferreira, Fed. Univ. of Goiás, Brazil

  • Orbital monitoring of natural and emerging Cerrado landscapes

    •    2:40Manuel Ferreira, Fed. Univ. of Goiás, Brazil

  • Landscape scenarios along the Cerrado-Amazonia frontier (arc of deforestation): what we know and what we may expect

    •    3:05Coffee break

       3:30J. Christopher Brown, University of Kansas

  • Feeding the world AND conserving tropical forests: a test of the Borlaug hypothesis in Mato Grosso, Brazil

    •    4:00Holly Gibbs, University of Wisconsin

  • Effectiveness of zero-deforestation agreements in the Brazilian Amazon

    •    4:30Don Sawyer, University of Brasília

  • Save Our Savannas – SOS!

    •    4:45Wrap-up

     

    Participants