{"id":572617,"date":"2026-01-21T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=572617"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:03:09","slug":"reducing-poverty-to-restore-the-caatinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/reducing-poverty-to-restore-the-caatinga\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing poverty to restore the Caatinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_572622\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-572622 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RPF-notas-caatinga-maracuja-2025-09-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RPF-notas-caatinga-maracuja-2025-09-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RPF-notas-caatinga-maracuja-2025-09-1140-250x157.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RPF-notas-caatinga-maracuja-2025-09-1140-700x440.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RPF-notas-caatinga-maracuja-2025-09-1140-120x75.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Fernanda Muniz Bez Birolo \/ Embrapa Semi\u00e1rido<\/span>Wild passion fruit, a source of income that helps preserve native vegetation<span class=\"media-credits\">Fernanda Muniz Bez Birolo \/ Embrapa Semi\u00e1rido<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ecologists from the federal universities of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Para\u00edba (UFPB) have proposed a strategy dubbed \u201cmultifunctional landscapes\u201d to curb degradation in the Caatinga (a semiarid scrubland biome) while addressing the needs of rural communities. The approach is based on the observation that conventional land use in Brazil\u2019s semiarid Northeast\u2014extensive livestock farming (particularly goats), extraction of forest products, and slash-and-burn agriculture\u2014results in environmental degradation and increased desertification. This could be reversed by implementing techniques that improve water storage, soil preservation, and agricultural productivity, which would also improve rural living conditions. \u201cEven on small properties, multifunctional landscapes can help maintain forest integrity, retain biodiversity, and promote significant socioeconomic improvements through increased production,\u201d says Marcelo Tabarelli of UFPE, who led the proposal. Change will require a joint effort from local communities, nongovernmental organizations, research centers, and government agencies, with support from public policies (<a href=\"https:\/\/conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/cobi.70030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Conservation Biology<\/em><\/a>, June).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ecologists propose new strategy for curbing degradation of the Caatinga","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"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":[1651],"tags":[206,224,256,261],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-572617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology","tag-public-policies","tag-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572617","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\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572627,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572617\/revisions\/572627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572617"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=572617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}