The unique landscape occupies a little over 20% of the country's land area and is South America’s second-largest biome after the Amazon, hosting around 4,800 species of plants and vertebrates found nowhere else.
This lack of knowledge on indirect suppliers is causing "hidden" deforestation in the tropical savanna of Cerrado in Brazil. "This joint SCF and ABIOVE initiative is designed to send a strong market signal to producers that SCF members are seeking to do business with suppliers that are in line with SCF objectives, and are capable of tracing their own sourcing to guarantee it is deforestation- and conversion-free," said a consortium statement.Īn analysis of commodity sourcing published in Science Advances External link in April estimated that indirect sourcing accounts for between 12% to 42% of all traceable soy sourced from South America. Researchers in Switzerland have flagged indirect suppliers as the weak link in the supply chain of commodity traders when it comes to deforestation. All the traders except Viterra have a significant presence in Switzerland (head office, European headquarters or branch office).Ī common methodology for indirect suppliers has been developed with the aid of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oils (ABIOVE) and it is expected that half of the shortlisted indirect suppliers will be on board by the end of the year. On June 21, Viterra (formerly Glencore Agriculture), Bunge, ADM, Cargill, LDC and COFCO – as part of a joint partnership called the Soft Commodities Forum External link (SCF) – announced their intention to get 19 indirect suppliers on board to help source soy sustainably in Brazil’s Cerrado landscape. Português (pt) Grandes comerciantes de soja buscam estratégias para combater desmatamento no Brasil.Español (es) Apoyo de gigantes de la soja en combate a deforestación oculta.
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