{"id":9149,"date":"2019-08-17T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T16:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?p=9149"},"modified":"2021-07-22T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:08:05","slug":"garrett-in-the-conversation-on-what-is-driving-in-the-deforestation-in-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/2019\/08\/17\/garrett-in-the-conversation-on-what-is-driving-in-the-deforestation-in-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil\u2019s vanishing rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/rachel-garret\/\">Rachel Garrett,<\/a><span>Assistant Professor of the Human Dimensions of Global Change in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University<\/span><span>, was interviewed for a recent article on the factors\u00a0driving\u00a0deforestation in the Amazon .<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Garrett was interviewed for a August 23, 2019 article in\u00a0<i>The\u00a0Conversation\u00a0<\/i>entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-amazon-is-burning-4-essential-reads-on-brazils-vanishing-rainforest-122288\">The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil\u2019s vanishing rainforest<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the text of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDeforestation is largely due to <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/strict-amazon-protections-made-brazilian-farmers-more-productive-new-research-shows-105789\">land clearing for agricultural purposes<\/a>, particularly cattle ranching but also soybean production,\u201d writes Rachel Garrett, a professor at Boston University who studies land use in Brazil.\u00a0Since farmers need \u201ca massive amount of land for grazing,\u201d Garrett says, they are driven to \u201ccontinuously clear forest \u2013 illegally \u2013 to expand pastureland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garrett\u2019s research found that improved pasture management in line with stricter federal land use policies led the number of cattle slaughtered annually per acre to double.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers are producing more meat \u2013 and therefore earning more money \u2013 with their land,\u201d she writes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Garrett,Assistant Professor of the Human Dimensions of Global Change in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on the factors\u00a0driving\u00a0deforestation in the Amazon . Garrett was interviewed for a August 23, 2019 article in\u00a0The\u00a0Conversation\u00a0entitled &#8220;The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil\u2019s vanishing rainforest&#8221; From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[171,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15670,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions\/15670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}