Cerrado

cerrado English Noun ~ en cerrado. en-GB Dom Phillips The Cerrado: how Brazil’s vital ‘water tank’ went from forest to soy fields The Guardian 2020-11-25 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/25/the-cerrado-how-brazils-vital-water-tank-went-from-forest-to-soy-fields 0261-3077 Nearly half (44%) of the Cerrado’s native vegetation, which includes scrubland, grasslands and forests, is already used for agriculture, the MapBiomas monitoring project calculates. en 2023 Daniel R. Reichman Progress in the Balance: Mythologies of Development in Santos, Brazil Cornell University Press 9781501770449 68 https://books.google.com/books?id=amiuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&dq=%22the+Cerrado%22&hl=&cd=13&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22the%20Cerrado%22&f=false The Cerrado region now provides 54 percent of all soybeans harvested in Brazil, 28 percent of the country's corn, and 59 percent of its coffee.