Amazon soy pact collapse could drive 1.4 million hectares of deforestation in Brazil by 2036, new study finds
- For nearly two decades, a handshake agreement saved the Amazon from the chainsaws.
- Soy traders promised not to finance cropland carved out of deforested Amazon territory after 2008, and it worked.
- Deforestation-linked soy expansion fell from one-third of annual growth to nearly nothing.
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- For nearly two decades, a handshake agreement saved the Amazon from the chainsaws.
- Soy traders promised not to finance cropland carved out of deforested Amazon territory after 2008, and it worked.
- Deforestation-linked soy expansion fell from one-third of annual growth to nearly nothing.
Sources: Times of India