Latin America Nodal Office

Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER)
ignacio.gasparri@gmail.com

+54 381 4255174

Universidad Nacional de Tucumán – CONICET
IER-LIEY
CC 34
4107 Yerba Buena Tucumán
Argentina

Focus on: Latin American land use change in relation to globalization; environmental services in land use frontiers and transitional zone; land use efficiency and conflicts.
The nodal office is hosted by the Instituto de Ecologia Regional (UNT_CONICET)
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Events

 

August

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Monday, August 14, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, August 20, 2023 (All day)

The Space Week Nordeste 2023 will be an event that will gather students, researchers, industry members, and curious people about aerospace science and technology in only one place – the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. During Space Week Nordeste 2023, scientists will present the results of their developing projects and exhibit what is most modern within the space science area.

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News

 
March 21, 2023

Eudaimonia in the Amazon: Relational Values as a Deep Leverage Point to Curb Tropical Deforestation

A new paper in Conservation draws from over 70 local interviews with stakeholders in Brazil to assess the role that relational values can play as a “deep” leverage point for a land-use transition in the Amazon.

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January 20, 2023

Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade

A new article in Global Environmental Change identifies factors determining local stickiness in Brazil's soy supply chain.

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November 12, 2022

Leakage does not fully offset soy supply-chain efforts to reduce deforestation in Brazil

A new article in Nature Communications shows eliminating deforestation from the supply chains of all firms exporting Brazilian soy to the EU or China from 2011-2016 could have reduced net global deforestation by 2% and Brazilian deforestation by 9%. 

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November 12, 2022

Gaps in adoption and implementation limit the current and potential effectiveness of zero-deforestation supply chain policies for soy

A new article in Environmental Research Letters leverages timeseries of spatially explicit corporate commodity sourcing data and ZDCs to assess the current and potential effect of ZDCs within soybean supply chains on forest loss and biodiversity. 

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