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2020/12/15. Over nearly a century of expansion in Latin America, Mennonites have created >200 agricultural colonies across 9 countries, covering a total area of greater than that of the Netherlands. Read our new paper to find out more! All data is available under a link provided in the paper. You can also find a Spanish version here and a German version here.
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2020/09/09. New article out! In a new commentary in One Earth, Laura Kehoe and colleagues argue that the EU-Mercosur agreement is failing to meet current sustainability challenges, and propose three tenets that should be at the center of any sustainable agreement: Inclusion, Transparency, and Enforcement. You can find our paper here.
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2020/08/18. The LENDEV lab is pleased to welcome our newest member, Patrice Matthews, who will be starting her MSc in Geography with us this fall. Patrice has a BSc in Environmental Science and Spanish from University of Maryland and will be working on conservation and smallholder livelihoods in the Argentine Chaco. Welcome Patrice! For more info see the People page.
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2020/08/15. Can silvopastoral systems mitigate trade-offs between food production and carbon storage? In a new paper led by Pedro Fernandez from University of Tucumán, Argentina, we show that they might, but only if current practices of woody encroachment control are modified so they don't harm standing trees and prevent regrowth. See the article "A hard-to-keep promise" here.
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2019/08/03. Ya está disponible la versión en castellano del artículo "El capital no tiene patria:
La formación de cohortes transnacionales de productores en las fronteras de commodities de Sudamérica". Esta se puede descargar aquí. |
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2019/06/04. New paper out! In "Capital has no homeland: The formation of transnational producer cohorts in South America’s commodity frontiers", just published in Geoforum, Yann describes transnational investments by Brazilian, Uruguayan and Argentine farmers in the dry woodlands of Paraguay and Bolivia.
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