Amazon
ASB research in the western Amazon focuses on the causes and consequences of smallholder slash-and-burn agriculture, drawing upon studies from benchmark sites in Brazil and Peru.
The Amazon Basin,an area of approximately 7.5 million km2 that covers over 40% of the South American continent, and is home to the world's largest remaining tracts of tropical rainforests. A habitat to the world's largest annual loss of tropical forests as increasing areas of forest are converted each year to make way for agricultural, cattle-ranching and logging activities.
ASB's
National Consortium in Brazil and National Consortium in Peru work with farmers to identify and develop land-use options that can improve the livelihoods of rural families while preserving the Amazon's remaining forests.
As the main vehicle for ASB activities in the region, ASB intends to develop a partnership with the Amazon Initiative, an organisation it already supports.
Information on ASB's research activity outputs in the Amazon can be found on ASB's publication database.
Other organisations working in the Amazon and Latin America