Soybean Accelerates Brazil’s Deforestation

The Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) and the Brazilian NGO Forum published a study demonstrating a relationship between the expansion of areas of soybean cultivation and the deforestation of native forests in Brazil, especially in the middle and north of the state of Mato Grosso.

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