| Title | The Impact of Soybean Farming in Brazil’s Last Commodity Frontier |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Scientific Food Production and Landscape Transformations in MATOPIBA |
| Contributor | Cassiano de Brito Rocha(author) |
| Kárita de Jesus Boaventura (author) | |
| Giovanni de Araujo Boggione(author) | |
| Sandro Dutra e Silva(author) | |
| Landing page | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv309h1fx.12 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Cassiano de Brito Rocha; Kárita de Jesus Boaventura; Giovanni de Araujo Boggione; Sandro Dutra e Silva |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2022-11-01 |
| Page range | pp. 115–140 |
| Print length | 26 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Cassiano de Brito Rocha holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Universidade Estadual de Goiás. He currently works as Monitoring Manager of Infrastructure and Economic Development Projects in the Government of the State of Goiás. His research focuses on the history of agriculture with an emphasis on the expansion of soy agricultural frontiers in the Cerrado.
Kárita de Jesus Boaventura has a Ph. D. in Environmental Sciences from the Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources of the Cerrado of the State University of Goiás. She works as a History Teacher in the public primary education system of the State of Goiás. She is a member of the Research Group 'Environmental History of the Cerrados' of the CNPq Research Directory Group.
Giovanni de Araujo Boggione has a Ph. D . in Remote Sensing from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). He is currently a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás (IFG) where he works in Geoprocessing, Digital Processing of Satellite Images and Geographic Database. He is also pursuing post-doctorate training in the Graduate Program in Society, Technology and Environment at the Evangelical University of Goiás, under the supervision of Sandro Dutra e Silva. He is a member of the CNPq Research Directory Group 'Environmental History of the Cerrados'.
Sandro Dutra e Silva holds a Ph. D. in History from the University of Brasília (UnB). He is a professor of Brazilian environmental history at the State University of Goiás and the Evangelical University of Goiás, Brazil. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC), the journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Society for Environmental History (SOLCHA). His main research interests include the environmental history of the Cerrado and the agricultural frontier in Central Brazil. He is a Research Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).