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Since the global financial crisis, the world has seen a stark rise in financial investment in #farming and #agriculturalproduction.

📙Book discussion with author Stefan Ouma coming up in next week's #GlobalSouth Encounter!

🗓️15.12 at 13-14
📌Zoom

👀https://www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-institute-sustainability-science/helsus-events/helsus-global-south-encounters

The paper presents calculations on how intensifying soy (&maize) cropping in Brazil can allow to better balance trade-offs between #environmentalconservation and #agriculturalproduction, compared to a BAU scenario of continuing #deforestation and expansion, and a hardcore scenario of no cropland expansion at all.

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