Fig. 1: Forest conversion to agriculture (1985–2018) and spatial distribution of different land-tenure regimes in Brazil.
From: Land tenure drives Brazil’s deforestation rates across socio-environmental contexts
A Shows all forest cover (including natural forests, plantations, savannas, and mangrove tree cover) converted to farming (pasture, agriculture, annual perennial, and semi-perennial crops, including mosaics of agriculture and pasture)18. B Shows the spatial distribution of six different land-tenure regimes, collated from Imaflora’s Atlas of Brazilian Agriculture17. C Shows total areas of forest that were converted to agriculture (red) or other land uses (gray) between 1985 and 2018, and remaining forest cover in 2018 (green), across all Brazil-wide parcels under each tenure regime. Percentages of total original (1985) forest cover per tenure regime that were converted to agriculture by 2018 are indicated above each bar.
