Brazil to unveil plan to increase farmland by 60%. Over the next 10 years the government plans to invest $120 billion to expand the amount of farmland in the country, which has become a global agricultural powerhouse
by Wagamaga
Brazil to unveil plan to increase farmland by 60%. Over the next 10 years the government plans to invest $120 billion to expand the amount of farmland in the country, which has become a global agricultural powerhouse
by Wagamaga
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will unveil a plan at the UN’s upcoming COP28 climate summit to increase Brazil’s available agricultural lands by 60 percent without contributing to deforestation, his government announced Thursday.
The South American country will move to convert degraded grazing areas into farmland, the government announced a week ahead of the climate summit, set to kick off in Dubai on November 30.
“We carried out a study and counted nearly 160 million hectares (395 million acres) of grazing areas. Of this total, around 40 million hectares (99 million acres) are located in degraded grazing areas, but very suitable for crops,” Roberto Perosa, a Ministry of Agriculture official, told a news conference.
“With a certain investment in the soil, this land can be converted into an arable area.”
Over the next 10 years the government plans to invest $120 billion to expand the amount of farmland in the country, which has become a global agricultural powerhouse.
I’m willing to bet that “degraded grazing areas” will in large part end up being “rainforest that unfortunately stands in the way of progress”…
Sigh.
I thought agriculture was one of the biggest polluters? 😄
Decimate the rain forest, which affects global weather patterns and decimate Indigenous ancestral lands? We’ll see.