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A sustainable pathway to increase soybean production in Brazil

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Acceleration of crop yield gains, coupled with parallel intensification of the livestock sector, would enable Brazil to increase current soybean production by 36% by 2035 without deforestation and with a notable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared with following present trends.

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Fig. 1: Past sources of soybean production increases and comparison of scenarios for intensification and land-use change in Brazil.

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This is a summary of: Marin, F. R. et al. Protecting the Amazon forest and reducing global warming via agricultural intensification. Nat. Sustain. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00968-8 (2022).

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