... Evaluation. We created an agroecological index representing the status of agroecological practices and outcomes on farms in Brazil and mapped the results at the municipal level (the smallest autonomous administrative territorial unit in Brazil) using data from the 2017 agricultural census. We found...

... and agroecological production can mitigate key constraints to agroecological transition. We explored the experience of participants in Brazil’s National School Feeding Program (PNAE) in Santa Catarina, which offers both a structured market for small-scale family farmers and a price premium for certified...

...Antônio Carlos Hummel; Anne R. Kapuscinski; Paulo Roberto de Souza Moutinho; Kim A. Locke Brazil has succeeded in reducing deforestation rates in the Amazon, but has not succeeded in explaining to the general public how much of this deforestation was illegal and how much was legally authorized...

...Jeff Tollefson; Anne R. Kapuscinski; Kim Locke; Paulo Roberto de Souza Moutinho The international media has played a powerful role by highlighting problems in the Brazilian Amazon, projecting the views of scientists and activists and projecting data from Brazil’s satellite monitoring program...

...Claudia Azevedo-Ramos; José Natalino Macedo Silva; Frank Merry; Anne R. Kapuscinski; Peter C. Frumhoff; Kim Locke In 2006 Brazil passed legislation allowing concessions for industrial timber harvest in public forests. This decision was part of a broader effort to control deforestation, which had...