Embrapa's latest trick is something called forest, agriculture and livestock integration: the fields are used alternately for crops and livestock but threads of trees are also planted in between the fields, where cattle can forage.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian agriculture

Having spent years increasing production and acreage, Embrapa is now turning to ways of increasing the intensity of land use and of rotating crops and livestock so as to feed more people without cutting down the forest.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian agriculture

They soon found that much of the rain forest that would have harbored coffee trees in the past had been clear cut to grow corn, bananas and grass for livestock.

WSJ: The Indiana Jones of Coffee

There has long been opposition to the prospect of a gold mine and processing plant being built at Skouries in the Halkidiki peninsula, with some residents objecting to what they say will be the destruction of the environment and of pristine forest in the area, leading to the loss of tourism and other local activities such as farming, the rearing of livestock and fishing.

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