The expansion of the agricultural frontier into the Amazon and the Cerrado biome have enabled the production of soy, corn and beef for exporting to the global market. The increase of commodities demands have attracted large investments but also caused deforestation, changes in land use, green-house gas emissions and consolidated unsustainable developmental pathways. In recent years, especially after the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, environmental policies have increasingly become dismantled, resulting in green-grabbing and environmental destruction in Brazil. Will the 2022 national elections, and possible political changes, alter this unsustainable scenario?

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Lecturer:
Sérgio Sauer is a visiting researcher at the Global Development Studies of the University of Helsinki in 2022. PhD in Sociology, he is professor of the University of Brasília (UnB), in the Centre for Sustainable Development (CDS), mainly researching on agrarian issues (changes in land use, expansion of agricultural frontiers) and their social and environmental impacts (social conflicts over land and natural resources, deforestation, gas emissions) in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes. 

Discussant:
Magnus Lembke, Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies

This Open Lecture will take place at the Library of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies and Zoom. 
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Contact information:
Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies (NILAS)

Organiser:The seminar is organized in cooperation with the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University