Cargill’s recent announcement of policies to achieve zero-deforestation in its supply chains comes at a crucial moment for the Brazilian Cerrado, which is being destroyed at a breakneck rate, primarily for soy and cattle production.
Meat inflation is at a multiyear high and pigs — plagued with African swine fever — are in the doghouse.
In 2014, the future of forests looked bright. Governments, companies, non-governmental organizations and Indigenous groups committed to ten ambitious goals under the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF).
Stopping deforestation is crucial to cutting carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.