The bigger question for them is: can the miracle of the cerrado be exported, especially to Africa, where the good intentions of outsiders have so often shrivelled and died?

而对他们来说更大的问题是：塞拉多创造的农业奇迹可以被其他国家借鉴吗？ ，尤其是非洲，引进的好方法经常在这里行不通。

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The biggest agricultural success story of the past two decades has been Brazil, largely because it was able to increase its usable acreage by making its vast cerrado (savannah-like grassland) bloom.

过去二十年间，最大的农业成功在巴西，很大程度上是因为巴西通过改造塞拉多（大草原般的草地）增加了可耕面积。

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But by old-fashioned crossbreeding, Embrapa worked out how to make it also grow in a tropical climate, on the rolling plains of Mato Grosso state and in Goiás on the baking cerrado.

不过，“巴西农业研究公司”借用老式杂交方式研发一种使大豆能够在热带气候生长，能够在曝晒的塞拉多马托格罗索州和戈亚斯州崎岖不平的平原上生长。

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Now, farms in the cerrado plant smaller, more resistant bushes and machine-harvest them.

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Recent climate-vegetation models suggest that excessive cerrado clearance could lead to the drying up and loss of rainforest in south Amazonia.

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The explosive recent growth in the cultivation of another oil seed, soyabean, has led to an onslaught on Brazil's dryland cerrado savannah, which is often disregarded as a forest, though it contains two-thirds as much carbon as the rainforest, mostly in its roots.

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