Greenwashed and growing

A drone view showing fallen trees in a secondary forest where farmers were in the last stages of clearing land as soybean farming expanded in the Amazon, in Santarem, Para state, Brazil. — Reuters

BRAZILIAN soy farmers are pushing deeper into the Amazon rainforest, threatening a landmark deal meant to slow deforestation.

Many are capitalising on a loophole in the Amazon Soy Moratorium, a voluntary pact signed in 2006 by the world’s top grain traders, pledging not to buy soy grown on land deforested after 2008.