Climate & Environment
Soy Moratorium
The 2006 agreement by major traders not to buy soy grown on recently deforested Amazon land — the landmark private zero-deforestation commitment.
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The Soy Moratorium is a voluntary agreement, signed in 2006 by major soybean traders (ABCD companies and others) following Greenpeace's "Eating Up the Amazon" campaign, under which signatories commit not to purchase soy grown on land in the Brazilian Amazon biome deforested after a cut-off date (later set at 2008). Monitoring uses satellite data to check farms; studies credit the moratorium with a dramatic reduction in soy-driven deforestation in the Amazon biome, making it the most cited success of private supply chain governance.
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