The Natural Fix?

Forest, crops and the people A land competition conflict in Brazil

Amazonas

J u r u e n a

Parà

Novo Mundo

Colniza

Villa Rica

Nova Monte Verde

Aripuana

Peixoto do Azevedo

Tocantins

Confresa

Porto Alegre do Norte

Marcelândia

Juína

Cana Brava do Norte

Rondônia

A r a g u a i a

Nobres

Mato Grosso

Nova Olímpia

Villabela

Primavera do l’este

Goiàs

Cuiabá

Poxoréo

Cáceres

BOLIVIA

Santo Antonio

Nossa Senhora do Livramento

Familes in conflict for land related issues in 2007

Guiratinga

Rondonópolis

Land competition

Extensive soy belt

730 350 230 20

Deforested areas, from 2000 to 2006

Mato Grosso do Sul

Remaining forest, 2006

Main roads Roads planned or in construction

homicides due to land issues from 2000 to 2007

Each spot represents a single homicide

Source: based on a map from Nieves Lopez and Riccardo Pravettoni. IBGE, 2008; Commissao Pastoral da Terra, 2008.

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