INTERVIEW-From gene sequencing to chocolate, Brazil's Amazon looks for a new development model
INTERVIEW-From gene sequencing to chocolate, Brazil's Amazon looks for a new development model Reuters 2/1/2021 By Fabio Zuker SAO PAULO, Feb 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Instead of expanding destructive farming and logging, Brazil should "develop" the Amazon region by producing high-value products from its indigenous biodiversity, from nuts and fruits to medicinal plants, a top forest researcher said. Sequencing the genomes of its many unique species, for example, could result in earnings as firms look for new medicines, or as agencies try to monitor pathogens that could spur new pande...
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