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Yann le Polain @yannlepolain.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Angela Kronenburg García and I just published a new paper on the moral economy of frontier investments! It explores the discursive work that goes into realizing the "dream" of new investment frontiers, based on interviews in the Gran Chaco and in Mozambique. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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“Dream brokers” and the moral economy of frontier investments

Agricultural frontiers continue to expand rapidly in multiple parts of the world, with massive social and ecological consequences. As awareness of the…

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Olivia del Giorgio @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Just published a piece in BioScience with @mariapiquerr.bsky.social, Gabriela Fontanarrosa, and Silvia Lomáscolo on what systemic sexism looks like for us as early career researchers. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Systemic sexism in academia: an early-career viewpoint

Over the past years, a theme has recurrently popped up in conversation among us (the present authors): Discussions over Zoom, at conferences, on bumpy road

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🐄🐂 Putting landless cattle on the map! 🐄🐂 New paper in Env. Research Letters on mapping cattle intensification from space - across South America's dry diagonal doi.org/10.1088/1748... @erc.europa.eu @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @pedrofernandez91.bsky.social #SystemShift @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Putting land claiming on the map reveals that the footprint of agricultural frontiers extends far into seemingly ‘intact’ forests. New paper by @o-delgiorgio.bsky.social in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social @tkuemmerle.bsky.social @yannlepolain.bsky.social

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Yann le Polain @yannlepolain.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

In a new article in the Journal of Peasant Studies, I discuss how Criollo smallholders have dealt with large-scale land deals in the Paraguayan Chaco. The upshot: they are doing all they can, but in the face of immense power imbalances, that is often still not enough. See doi.org/10.1080/0306...

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‘Who defends us?' Criollo livestock herders amidst commodity frontier expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco

The expansion of large-scale cattle ranches and commercial crop farms into the Gran Chaco woodlands is displacing forest-based smallholders at an alarming rate. In this paper, I use the case of Cri...

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Prof Rachael Garrett @rachgarr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Now that so many people are on blue sky I want to rehype this amazing paper by Leonie Hodel, @yannlepolain.bsky.social, & myself. I really found this to be one of the most interesting papers I have participated in during the last years. It is an outcome of @glp-earth.bsky.social OSM4!

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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Agricultural expansion in the Chaco leads to the marginalization of Indigenous peoples and other smallholders through limiting access to surface water --> doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... Paper led by Patrice Matthews & Yann le Polain de Waroux at McGill University with @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

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Yann le Polain @yannlepolain.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

New paper out! In "Frontier constellations", I use the notion of land-use regimes to frame a discussion of long-term land-use transitions in the Paraguayan Chaco, based on oral histories and historical documents. Check it out here! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Frontier Constellations: A History of Land-use Regimes in Paraguay’s Pilcomayo River Basin

The Paraguayan Chaco is increasingly known for the extreme rates of forest loss caused by the rapid expansion of cattle ranching and crop farming over the last few decades. Knowledge of its twentie...

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Land-use typology for conservation in tropical dry woodlands published in Global Environmental Change By Marie Pratzer, @tkuemmerle.bsky.social, Patrick Meyfroidt, Natasha Ribeiro, Jayshree Ratnam, Mariana Rufino, Yann le Polain, Maria Vallejos and more! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands

Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately consider…

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Biogeography Berlin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

How to be more nuanced about land use in conservation? We identify land systems, focused on actors, that represent key threats and conservation opportunities - across the tropical dry woodlands.

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