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Respostas enviadas para a reportagem “‘Soja-pirata’ cultivada na Amazônia acelera desmatamento e tem participação de gigantes do agro”
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Bunge has not purchased soybeans from Aliança Agrícola do Cerrado since 2017. Regarding Fiagril, this grain reseller has not supplied soybeans to Bunge from Marcelândia, in the state of Mato Grosso. Furthermore, as a signatory of the Amazon Soy Moratorium, purchases made by Fiagril are audited by independent entities and approved by the Soy Working Group – an organization formed by representatives of the Government, NGOs and Abiove (Association of Vegetable oils Industries). In addition, Bunge’s contracts with suppliers have clauses in which the supplier expressly commits to supply grains in accordance with the applicable legislation, including environmental laws. Bunge ha
Large-scale deforesters emboldened under Brazil s Bolsonaro, data indicate mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Louvain in Belgium analyzed thousands of policy recommendations for how the EU should reduce deforestation in a recent report, deciding which had the greater potential to reduce deforestation while still being politically feasible.
(Photo : Photo by Dimas Ardian/Getty Images) Surprisingly, support for stricter controls, such as import bans on certain products, is lower. However, our research shows that there is widespread support for such initiatives that can mitigate imported deforestation According to Martin Persson, a Chalmers University of Technology Associate Professor of Physical Resource Theory.
EU s Impact on Deforestation
Mapping policy for how the EU can reduce its impact on tropical deforestation eurekalert.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurekalert.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Over the past decades, forests have been cut at an alarming pace and, although the loss rate has substantially decreased, global pressure on forests and natural habitat is still high.
While the FAO in its “State of the World’s Forests” acknowledges that agricultural expansion continues to be the main driver of deforestation and forest degradation, the reasons behind the conversion of natural eco-systems are complex, non-linear and related to different types of activity. They include global demand for food but also by the need to enhance the living of rural populations.
The EU has definitely a role to play in addressing this trend. Beyond the EU, the increasing demand for all commodities to feed a growing population in the next decades will require a global effort to produce more and waste less and to do it more sustainably, so as to prevent conversion of natural habitat.