cerrado

One answer has been to transform large areas of scrub land, known as cerrado, into arable land, by reducing the soil's acidity to make it suitable for cattle grazing and soybean cultivation.

Investors Search for Land of Opportunity Andrew Peaple 2011

The cerrado is a vegetation formation of great antiquity, that may have existed in "prototypic form in the Cretaceous, before the final separation of the South American and African continents."

Chris McGowan: Biofuel Could Eat Brazil's Savannas & Deforest the Amazon 2009

All that was required to stimulate development of the cerrado was a little bit of science: the knowledge that the agricultural potential of the soil was constrained by a deficiency of phosphorus.

The Green vs. the Brown Amazon Terborgh, John 2007

The cerrado is a big prairie, comparable to our great plains.

The Green vs. the Brown Amazon Terborgh, John 2007

Cynllwyd, hoary-headed, she seemed to say; but here, as well as with respect to her first answer, I speak under correction, for her Welsh was what my old friends, the Spaniards, would call muy cerrado, that is, close or indistinct.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Borlaug continues, But Africa, the former Soviet republics, and the cerrado are the last frontiers.

Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity 1997

Borlaug continues, But Africa, the former Soviet republics, and the cerrado are the last frontiers.

Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity 1997

The legal Amazon, an region consisting of rainforests and a biologically-rich grassland known as cerrado, is now home to more than 80 million head of cattle.

Mongabay.com News 2009

The legal Amazon, an region consisting of rainforests and a biologically-rich grassland known as cerrado, is now home to more than 80 million head of cattle.

Mongabay.com News 2009

The legal Amazon, an region consisting of rainforests and a biologically-rich grassland known as cerrado, is now home to more than 80 million head of cattle.

Mongabay.com News 2009