Cattle ranching in Brazil is a key driver of deforestation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Brazilian government plans to reduce national GHG emissions by at least 36%, partly by reducing emissions in the livestock sector through strategies such as intensification, pasture improvement, and...
Bogaerts, Meghan
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Cirhigiri, Lora
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Robinson, Ian
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Rodkin, Mikaela
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Hajjar, Reem
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Costa Junior, Ciniro
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Newton, Peter
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[Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: Estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon]
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Climate change mitigation through intensified pasture management: Estimating greenhouse gas emissions on cattle farms in the Brazilian Amazon
A number of governance mechanisms address socio-environmental challenges associated with commodity agriculture in tropical forested countries. Governance mechanisms that prove effective in one agricultural sector are often applied to other sectors as well. For example, voluntary certification pro...
Hajjar, Reem
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Newton, Peter
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Ashead, Daniel
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Bogaerts, Meghan
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Maguire-Rajpaul, Victoria Alice
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Pinto, Louis F.G.
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McDermott, Constance
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Milder, Jeffrey
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Agrawal, Arun
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[Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil]
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Scaling up sustainability in commodity agriculture: Transferability of governance mechanisms across the coffee and cattle sectors in Brazil
A large number of governance interventions are being developed in order to reduce deforestation and enhance the sustainability of commodity
supply chains across the tropics. The extent to which individual agricultural commodity supply chain interventions can achieve scale, and
environmental or so...
Alves-Pinto, H.N.
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Newton, Peter
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Guedes Pinto, L.F.
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[Reducing deforestation and enhancing sustainability in commodity supply chains: interactions between governance interventions and cattle certification in Brazil]
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Reducing deforestation and enhancing sustainability in commodity supply chains: interactions between governance interventions and cattle certification in Brazil
Voluntary certification programs for agricultural and forest products have beendeveloped to improve the environmental and social sustainability of produc-tion processes. The new Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) cattle certifi-cation program aims to reduce deforestation in the cattle supply c...
Newton, Peter
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Alves-Pinto, H.N.
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Guedes Pinto, L.F.
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[Certification, forest conservation, and cattle: theories and evidence of change in Brazil]
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Certification, forest conservation, and cattle: theories and evidence of change in Brazil
Sustainability standards and certification serve to differentiate and provide market recognition to goods produced in accordance with social and environmental good practices, typically including practices to protect biodiversity. Such standards have seen rapid growth, including in tropical agricu...
Milder, Jeffrey C.
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Arbuthnot M
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Blackman, A.
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Brooks, S.
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Giovannucci, Daniele
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Gross LH
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Kennedy ET
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Komives K
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Lambin EF
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Lee A
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Meyer D
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Newton, Peter
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Phalan, B.
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Schroth, Götz
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Semroc, Bambi
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Rokxoort, H. van
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Zrust, M.
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[An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture]
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An agenda for assessing and improving conservation impacts of sustainability standards in tropical agriculture
Voluntary certification programs are one type of intervention used to incentivize the agricultural commodity sector in tropical landscapes to reduce deforestation and improve sustainability. Cases of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) voluntary certification program in Indonesia and th...
Winters, P.
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Kuo HW
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Niljinda C
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Chen, S.
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Alves-Pinto, H.N.
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Ongun M
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Daryanto, S.
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Newton, Peter
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[Voluntary Certification Design Choices Influence Producer Participation, Stakeholder Acceptance, and Environmental Sustainability in Commodity Agriculture Sectors in Tropical Forest Landscapes]
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Voluntary Certification Design Choices Influence Producer Participation, Stakeholder Acceptance, and Environmental Sustainability in Commodity Agriculture Sectors in Tropical Forest Landscapes
The rapid expansion of the production of agricultural commodities such as beef, cocoa, palm oil, rubber and soybean is associated with high rates of deforestation in tropical forest landscapes. Many state, civil society and market sector actors are engaged in developing and implementing innovativ...
Agrawal, A.
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Wollenberg, L.
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Newton, Peter
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[Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes]
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Enhancing the sustainability of commodity supply chains in tropical forest and agricultural landscapes