Garrett featured on BU’s Homepage

Rachael Garrett, Associate Director of the Land Use and Livelihoods Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center is featured on the home page of bu.edu. The article, below, highlights Garrett’s work in Brazil, where cattle ranching, farming, and the growth of cities has led to the deforestation of 150,000 square miles of rainforest since 1990, an area about three times the size of New England. Garrett, who is an economist and an Assistant Professor in the Earth and Environment Department, uses nearly a decade of interviews with cattle ranchers and farmers to figure out how to allow ranching and farming to thrive in Brazil while curbing deforestation.