soya
Last edited 1 January 1970 at 1:00am
n/a
Last edited 1 January 1970 at 1:00am
n/a
Posted by Richardg — 24 September 2014 at 7:08pm
-
The Soya Moratorium has helped reduce deforestation in the Amazon rainforest
Cargill just pledged to protect the world’s forests - but an eight-year truce that protects the Amazon from soya farming is in trouble.
Posted by Richardg — 31 January 2014 at 7:37pm
-
The Amazon's wildlife would have been at risk had the Soya Moratorium ended
Soya traders, companies, NGOs and the Brazilian government met today to debate the future of the soya moratorium - a seven-year-old scheme that stops the soya industry from carving up the Amazon. We managed to buy another year - but that's just twelve short months to find a permanent solution.
Last edited 1 January 1970 at 1:00am
n/a
Last edited 1 January 1970 at 1:00am
n/a
Posted by jamie — 9 July 2010 at 3:23pm
-
All is not doom and gloom in Brazil.
The soya moratorium, which Greenpeace helped establish in 2006, has been renewed
for another 12 months, which means another year of soya traders refusing to do
business with farmers growing crops on newly deforested land. In addition,
companies like McDonalds, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and the Co-op have reaffirmed their
commitment to the moratorium, ensuring that they continue to demand non-Amazon
soya at the consumer end too.
There's no denying that the moratorium has been a
success. Since it was established four years ago, deforestation rates in the
Amazon have decreased while soya yields have increased, showing that (as Paulo
Adario from our Brazilian office put it) "production and conservation can go
hand in hand".
With last year's agreement between three of the largest
slaughterhouses in Brazil to prevent cattle ranching
making further in-roads into the rainforest, we've made great strides in
breaking the link between agricultural production and deforestation. But the
current attempts to change the forest code could undo much of the success of
recent years so there's no rest for the wicked just yet.