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\n <\/picture>According to the 2020 data, 72.8% of the Amazon biome was occupied by native forest, while 3.7% was occupied by secondary forest (abandoned deforested areas in the process of regeneration). The total deforested area accounted for 17.6% of the total area, which was almost entirely used for livestock and agriculture. Pasture and soybean, along with maize and cotton, accounted for 14% of the surface area of the Amazon. Pasture covered almost nine times more land than crops. Areas classified as nonforest areas \u2014 comprising mainly nontree vegetation and, to a lesser extent, urbanized areas \u2014 represented 6.7% of the total biome. Rivers and other bodies of water covered 2.7% of the Amazon.<\/p>\n
TerraClass also revealed that 0.2% of the Amazon, equivalent to approximately 10,000 km2 of rainforest, was removed in 2020. \u201cAt the moment deforestation occurs, we do not know what the land will be used for,\u201d noted\u00a0 Esquerdo. \u201cWe cannot, therefore, define the immediate use of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n
The TerraClass 2020 numbers are similar to those presented by the most recent MapBiomas survey. The initiative is facilitated by the Observat\u00f3rio do Clima, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that brings together universities, technology companies, and Brazilian civil organizations. According to this NGO, 15.5% of the Amazon biome was occupied by agricultural activities in 2022, equivalent to approximately 650,000 km2. Since 1988, the area occupied by pasture and crops has increased 4.6-fold.<\/p>\n
An INPE study published in the journal Acta Amaz<\/em>\u00f4nica<\/em> in 2020 compared old maps of land use and cover in the Amazon biome created by TerraClass and MapBiomas. The key conclusion of the paper was that despite the methodological differences, between 87.4% and 92% of the results of the two initiatives were similar.<\/p>\n Amazon+10 Initiative At the end of last year, 39 research proposals were accepted from 19 Brazilian states. The Association of State Research Funding Agencies (FAP) allocated R$41.9 million to the projects chosen after the program’s first call. In November of that year, Amazon+10 issued a second call for proposals, with a planned budget of R$59.2 million and a focus on funding scientific expeditions to the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EMBRAPA and INPE resume the mapping of land use and cover in the Amazon, 14% of which is occupied by pasture and agriculture","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":520652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"coauthors":[101],"class_list":["post-520647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524070,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520647\/revisions\/524070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520647"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=520647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Land use is one of the key concerns of the Amazon+10 Initiative, alongside issues related to biodiversity, climate change, bioeconomy, biotechnology, and the living conditions of the residents of Amazonia. Launched in July last year, the program is run by Brazil\u2019s National Council of State Research Funding Agencies (CONFAP) and National Council of Science, Technology, and Innovation Departments (CONSECTI). It also has a partnership with the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).<\/p>\n