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However, due to more people searching for plots there is greater pressure on the amount of available land. The logging industry is responsible for a relatively small level of deforestation, accounting for 3% in Brazil. Consequently, all these activity contribute together to the rapid loss of what is left of the rainforest and a large proportion of the world’s biodiversity. All of the resources that the rainforest provides could be lost in the next 40 years.

The purpose of this paper seeks to analyze the effects of prescription drug abuse. In the first article identified the author seeks to identify the differences between peer and parent influence on the misuse of prescription drug as it relates to ethnicity. The second article to be investigation into prescription drug use misuse and drug problems as it pertains to motivational context. The third and final article seeks to education young adults on medical prescription drug use. A parent’s attitudes regarding substance use may help to clarify practical racial/ethnic deviations in prescription drug misuse among teens. The findings add provision to the growing evidence that parents continue to endure a critical part of adolescents '

From the beginning of the cultivation process, there is a large impact on the region as well as worldwide. The inevitable expansion of farmland in Colombia and other South American countries has led to rapid deforestation of the rainforests. This

(Fearnside). SUDAM was a major direct and indirect force in the conversion of the rainforest to pastureland. It provided incentives directly to ranchers but also built new roads and highways to attract new investors (Pancheco). “SUDAM invested about a billion dollars in corporate ranches by 1978” (Pancheco). Yet, because of the low yield standard of Brazilian cattle ranches, many SUDAM supported ranches were either taken over or partially abandoned by the 1980’s (Pancheco).

Brazil is a country that has a wonderful and enriching long history. It is accidentally discovered by the Portuguese in a route to the India. Pedro Álvares Cabral and his troop are the first European set foot on this mystical land in 1500. The indigenous along the shore was the first troop the Portuguese met. The arrival of Portuguese has deeply affect the economic and social environment of Brazil. Portuguese then evaded Brazil by sending Jesuits and later the Royal family doughing from the France and staying in Brazil until they returned to Portuguese in the early 1800s. During the period of Portuguese reign and after King Pedro I declared the independence of Brazil in 1822, the country has mainly gone through three major economy stages: sugar,

With Brazil being the largest country in South America in land, one of Brazil’s most important industry is agriculture. Not only does Brazil have the land but its also has immense agricultural resources available to produce its goods. Some of its major exports are coffee, sugar cane, ethanol, soybeans, and beef. Other significant exports

Agriculture has been the central figure of Ecuador’s economy for most of the country’s history. Agriculture is the second largest section of the economy. Coffee, bananas, and cacao, which is used to make chocolate, have been long important agricultural products. Forty percent of the country’ export earnings come from the crops. Ecuador is the world’s top supplier of bananas. Banana farms spread out around the city of Machala on the southern coast. Coffee and cacao are also important crops grown for export. In addition to large scale farming, Ecuador has many small farms. In 1964 a law broke up large farms and gave small plots of land to local people. These farms are about 12 acres in size. The people who farm them typically grow enough food

On the surface, expanding agriculture into the rainforest seems to be a fast and simple way to alleviate hunger and malnutrition, but in reality, the resulting environmental damage--in addition to being intrinsically harmful--would actually worsen the hunger that the expansion is trying to solve. In 2014, Brazil was removed from the UN World Hunger Map, an accomplishment that Social Development Minister Tereza Campello credits to “a mix of public policies and an increased food supply” (“World Hunger Map”). Unsurprisingly, at least a significant portion of the “increased food supply” came from agricultural expansion in the Amazon Rainforest, which currently hosts approximately 200 million cows (“Cattle Ranching”). Unfortunately for Brazil, its accomplishment of ending famine within its borders may be soon reversed.

During the past 30 years, deforestation in the Amazon has been a huge problem. The Amazon Rainforest is home to an estimated one-third of all known animal species and makes up about half of the world’s rainforests. The reasons for the deforestation is to expand pastures for cattle production, and fields to grow soybeans. ("Brazil Geography-Introduction." N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May 2016.)

Agriculture and cattle ranching have been profitable for other parties that do not live off the land. Cattle ranching is the largest force of deforestation in the Amazon, which accounts for 80% of deforestation. Brazil has cleared up to 24 to 25 million hectares for the growth of soybean crops and is the second largest producer of soybeans. Cattle ranching and soy beans are linked together because when farmers expand to develop deeper into the forest, and abandon cattle pastures; they plant soy beans on the pasture to reuse the land. Deforestation started in the early 90’s because of the agriculture of soybeans and cattle ranches. In 1995 11,200 square miles of the Amazon Rainforest was cut down, which set a record for how much forest was cut down in the Amazon in a year. Deforestation went into a decline between the period of 2007 to 2012 because of the decline in prices of soybeans and beef. However, since 2012 soybeans price has increased rapidly by 29 percent by 2016. The market has been a driving force in deforestation because of the profit it holds for the farmers. Since the prices spiked, farmers have been clearing more land. Not only the

Brazil's Development Without Long Term Damage to the Amazon Introduction As part of this essay I will be discussing the issues involved with Brazil’s Amazon rainforest and how they as a country can use the rainforests resources for their development, without impairing the ability to use those resources in the future. In other words it is saying that Brazil should not cause long term damage to the rainforest when extracting resources. This is called sustainable development, and as it suggests, it means to sustain the environment whilst also continuing to develop their needs.

The economic benefits of deforesting the Amazon are endless and with the nation of Brazil in control roughly 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest (Oswald 1), one can only imagine the economic prosperity it brings to the country. For instance, 65-75% of the land used after deforestation (Oswald 1) goes towards creating space cattle ranching which is big business in Brazil as Brazil is the largest exporter of cattle in the world. The exported volume of cattle achieved 264 822 tons in 2012, and generated USD 1.220,316 million in exports (Duran 1). This shows how Brazil has supported the world’s economy by being a leader in the exportation of cattle. Additionally, cattle ranching in Brazil has created many jobs within the country and has drastically improved the country 's economic state. The cattle beef industry generates about 360 000 direct jobs as well as thousands of jobs among inputs suppliers, moving almost USD 2 billion in domestic inputs (Duran 1). Clearly, cattle ranching is a vital industry for the well being of the Brazilian economy however, the short-term economic benefits of deforestation are more than offset by long-term impact to both the environment and the population of Brazil.

The wide uses of the soybean make the profit increase dramatically which also due to the increasing soybean consumption in China. The boost in Brazil economy is the direct result, the soybean industry now account for nearly 2 percent of Brazil’s GDP. However it brings more of the global issues than a country’s benefit--Global warming, lose of biodiversity, lose of a place that produce 20% of the world’s oxygen. Ignore the warning from the environmental groups, the land used for soybean farming is continue increasing and now it has covered more than 18,400 hectares of the amazon

Brazil's economy is very diverse with considerable variation between regions. The most developed industry is concentrated in the south and southeast of the country. North-east – the poorest region of Brazil, but now he is beginning

This journal explain the ecological changes of the rainforest both in Peru and Brazil while explaining economic effects of the deforestation. Not only does it explain the ecological effects and change of landscape but it explains the damage to farmers today and the loss of economic stability. It is a good source to analyze the changes of more recent times. This journal will help me in the research of more recent numerical data (1999) to relate the effects of deforestation from the past and the effects felt