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Outside Rio, agricultural scientists work to improve production – and protect the landscape

The world has focused plenty of energy on the Amazon in recent decades, and legitimately so given the sheer scale of the physical transformation under way there. Less attention has been paid to the “cerrado”,  but Brazil’s ongoing agricultural expansion could have equally dire impacts on biodiversity in this tropical savannah, which picks up where the dense rainforest tapers off (see map at right). 

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