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...

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...

🐄🐂 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

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

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...

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!

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

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regimes to frame a discussion of long-term land-use transitions in the Paraguayan Chaco, based on oral histories and historical documents.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....

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...

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.