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The three largest soy producers (by weight and production area) are Brazil, the US, and Argentina, who are jointly responsible for 80% of global soy production...

Highlights: This study highlights the importance of working with Indigenous Peoples in order to prevent deforestation. However, it also demonstrates the importance of securing the land-tenure rights of Indigenous...

Highlights: Multi-annual precipitation deficits combined with above-average temperatures and a sequence of heatwaves are the cause of the long-running and extensive drought in central-southern South America. From August 2022...

Droughts in southern South America affect grazing systems in many ways. They reduce biomass productivity; decrease livestock feed intake, weight and reproductive performance...

This series of technical briefs aims to provide a solid knowledge base for building or strengthening stakeholder capacities on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and applying CSA practices to five crops...

This booklet provides examples of climate-smart systems by showcasing some FAO success stories in various countries. The cases have been selected from the FAO Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)...

The Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which houses about 10% of the Earth’s biodiversity and 16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans. However, the Amazon...

Sustainability assessments to inform the design of multifunctional grazing landscapes need to look beyond greenhouse gas emissions to simultaneously embrace other social and environmental criteria. Here...

This book provides an evaluation of measures to reduce exposure to highly toxic and carcinogenic contaminants in staple diets in Africa as well as parts of Asia and Latin America. Many of the poorest...

Within this generic scoping report of the Regional Assessments of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, the Americas Assessment considers these effects, as well as future threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services...