Amazon Deforestation To Cut Rain, Crop Production

Continued deforestation will actually cut total agricultural production in the Amazon area of Brazil. The researchers used model simulations to assess how the agricultural yield of the Amazon would be affected under two different land-use scenarios: a business-as-usual scenario where recent deforestation trends continue and new protected areas are not created; and a governance scenario which assumes Brazilian environmental legislation is implemented. The massive global tragedy of the commons is going to cause some big problems in the 21st century. They predict that by 2050, a decrease in precipitation caused by deforestation in the Amazon will reduce pasture productivity by 30 percent in the governance scenario and by 34 percent in the business-as-usual scenario. Furthermore, increasing temperatures could cause a...
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