![Soybean farms surrounded the Wawi Indigenous Territory in the Southeast Amazon. Rogério Assis/ Instituto Socioambiental, Author provided](https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/amazon-400x225.jpg)
How Brazil can beat the odds
Brazil has set itself a target of restoring almost 50,000 sq km of the Amazon rainforest by 2030. But it won't get there without changing its policies and how it engages with local people.
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The Future, This Week 17 Aug 18: productivity, food crisis, and changing stories
This week: Googling productivity, placing weight on calories, and changing stories.
![Photo of a cow https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/9306429460](https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cow-400x225.jpg)
Facing the fake food future
Welcome to the future where this week we learned that milk does not need to come from cows.
![Image of a road in the desert (Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/155486519@N03/35007792796)](https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/desert-400x225.jpg)
On dangerous ground: land degradation is turning soils into deserts
A new international report makes for bleak reading on the state of the world's soils. It predicts that land degradation will displace up to 700 million people worldwide by mid-century.