impacts. In the Eastern Brazilian Amazon, oil palm production has expanded rapidly over the past decade. Meanwhile, in the … socio-environmental benefits for smallholders. Our study seeks to shed light on pathways for reconciling oil palm production … with farmer livelihoods. We randomly sampled 198 smallholders in the municipality of Tomé-Açu, Pará, Brazil. Our findings …

The Amazon is a vast region, but with many shortcomings. It presents one of the worst human development indicators in … Brazil. This article shows that while the Amazon does not have an adequate policy to make the region economically viable … the region's economic development and there is an urgent need to preserve nature and increase the Amazon population …

, deforestation and forest degradation can endanger the livelihoods of forest dependent communities. Moreover, deforestation is the …