The northeast of Brazil is a typical semiarid region with chronic social and environmental problems resulting from decades of overexploitation, inappropriate land use and extended periods of drought. This area, two-thirds the size of western Europe is home to 30 percent of the Brazilian population. Millions of people have migrated from the region to the large cities of southern Brazil or the Amazon region. [...]
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Prance, G. T. (2003). Plants of Northeastern Brazil: A Programme in Sustainable Use of Plant Resources. In Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions (pp. 291–298). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0375-0_20
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