Global Canopy: New Tools Provide Significant Opportunity for Latin American Banks to “Underwrite Regional Food Security”, Through Better Management of Soft Commodity Risks
Global Canopy adds new tools and guidance to the Soft Commodity Risk Platform (SCRIPT), produced in partnership with WWF, to help regional banks better manage sustainability risks for commodities such as palm oil, soy, cattle and seafood.Business Wire, 07 January 2019
Brazil, Paraguay, Soy, Beef, Palm Oil, Timber, Tool
For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help
In Brazil, the tropical savanna known as the Cerrado has long been under threat from agriculture. But new land management approaches within its vast mosaic of landscapes are changing the way local people are farming it.Global Landscapes Forum, 07 January 2019
Brazil, Soy, Beef, farming
Brazil can survive another bad president. But can the planet?
Jair Bolsonaro threatens the rainforest, environmental activists and indigenous communities.New Statesman America, 03 January 2019
Brazil, Beef, deforestation
Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)
Brazil’s President-elect represents a major threat to Brazil’s legacy of forest conservation and to the prospects of preventing extremely dangerous climate change. This legacy was achieved largely through command-and-control measures that were supported by consistently pro-environment presidents over the last three decades; these measures are now vulnerable to the abrupt decline in environmental political will. A strategy to avoid major forest conservation setbacks and achieve new wins is possible under Bolsonaro if Brazil’s farmers and the broader society are convinced that they will be worse off if this legacy is dismantled.Mongabay, 06 December 2018
Brazil, Timber, deforestation