People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered 'sterile' land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says.
People thought she was crazy when Carminha Maria Missio and her family bought what was considered"sterile" land in the Brazilian savanna to farm soybeans, she says.
Even as Brazil races to stop Amazon deforestation, experts warn environmental destruction is surging in the Cerrado, fueling violent land-grabs and exacerbating the climate crisis.But when she arrived in the northeastern state of Bahia, the Cerrado was widely seen as a"wasteland," says Missio, 67.Sleeping under tarps and sweating in the tropical sun, her family joined a stream of pioneers who literally bet the farm on transforming this once-vast wilderness.
Fire is also used. A Switzerland-sized area has burned in the Cerrado this year, according to research group MapBiomas. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has largely delivered on his promise to protect the world's biggest rainforest, halving deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon since taking office in January. But destruction has increased 27 percent in the Cerrado from last year, including 659 square kilometers razed in September, a record for the month.- 'Upside-down Amazon' -
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