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The soy moratorium in the Amazon biome monitored by remote sensing images

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Rudorff, Bernardo Friedrich Theodor, Adami, Marcos, Aguiar, Daniel Alves, Moreira, Maurício Alves, Mello, Marcio Pupin, Fabiani, Leandro, Amaral, Daniel Furlan, Pires, Bernardo Machado·2011·Remote Sensing
DOI 10.3390/rs3010185
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The Soy Moratorium is a pledge agreed to by major soybean companies not to trade soybean produced in deforested areas after 24th July 2006 in the Brazilian Amazon biome. The present study aims to identify soybean planting in these areas using the MOD13Q1 product and TM/Landsat-5 images followed by aerial survey and field inspection. In the 2009/2010 crop year, 6.3 thousand ha of soybean (0.25% of the total deforestation) were identified in areas deforested during the moratorium period. The use of remote sensing satellite images reduced by almost 80% the need for aerial survey to identify soybean planting and allowed monitoring of all deforested areas greater than 25 ha. It is still premature to attribute the recent low deforestation rates in the Amazon biome to the Soy Moratorium, but the initiative has certainly exerted an inhibitory effect on the soybean frontier expansion in this biome.

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  • Ambitious and effective policies at national, state and local levels to contain deforestation and support socioeconomic development have shaped a new environmental and socio-economic development pattern in the Amazon.

    “have shaped a new environmental and socio-economic development pattern in the Amazon.”

    From Transition in environmental governance in the Brazilian Amazon: emergence of a new pattern of socio-economic development and deforestation (2016) · cites this paper as Rudorff et al., 2011

    The Introduction describes the Soy Moratorium as an initiative intended to reduce deforestation associated with soybean expansion, and the Conclusions say it inhibited expansion of the soybean frontier. The Conclusions also say it is premature to attribute the broader reduction in deforestation to the moratorium. The paper does not establish that policies at national, state and local levels supported socioeconomic development or shaped a new environmental and socioeconomic pattern across the Amazon (page numbers unavailable). (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Rudorff, B. F. T., Adami, M., Aguiar, D. A., Moreira, M. A., Mello, M. P., Fabiani, L., Amaral, D. F., & Pires, B. M.
Affiliations
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (BR)
  • Remote Sensing Division (DSR), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Av. dos Astronautas, 1758, São José dos Campos, CEP: 12227-010, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Globalsat Agriculture Monitoring, Av. Joaquim de Oliveira, 838, Rondonópolis, CEP: 78740-044, Mato Grosso, Brazil
  • Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), Av. Vereador José Diniz, 3707, São Paulo, CEP: 04603-004, São Paulo, Brazil
Corresponding author
Rudorff, Bernardo Friedrich Theodor
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Venue
Remote Sensing
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2011-01-18
Volume
3
Issue
1
Pages
185-202
ISSN
2072-4292 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/rs3010185
OpenAlex
W2095807456
Cited by
182
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FWCI
12.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
Keywords
soybean expansion, deforestation, Amazon biome, MOD13Q1, Landsat 5 TM, deforestation monitoring, agricultural frontier

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