{"id":50029995,"date":"2019-09-06T18:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.dialogochino.net\/?p=29995"},"modified":"2023-06-02T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:22:48","slug":"29986-how-soy-and-beef-spark-amazon-fires-and-how-to-stop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/29986-how-soy-and-beef-spark-amazon-fires-and-how-to-stop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How soy and beef spark Amazon fires \u2013 and how to stop it"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Amazonian city of S\u00e3o F\u00e9lix do Xingu, in Par\u00e1 state, there are nearly 20 head of cattle for each inhabitant. With more than two million cows<\/a>, S\u00e3o F\u00e9lix is the Brazilian city with the largest herd.<\/p>\n

It also is the city with this year\u2019s third highest number of fires, which are destroying the Amazon and shocking the world.<\/p>\n

The fires around S\u00e3o F\u00e9lix demonstrate how farmers clear land for cattle. Almost 80% of destruction in the Amazon is associated with creating pasture, according to<\/a> a 2016 report by the UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organization.<\/p>\n

Brazil is the world\u2019s number one beef exporter<\/a>. China and Hong Kong are its main buyers. But the country is also the largest exporter of soy to China.  As soy expands in other Brazilian regions, it sparks a chain of events that involves the displacement of other farmers and ranchers who, sometimes in cahoots with illegal loggers and miners, clear swathes of the Amazon.<\/p>\n

Brazil\u2019s president Jair Bolsonaro insists that economic development in the Amazonian region, one of the country\u2019s poorest, should prevail over forest preservation. In a meeting about the fires with Amazon region governors<\/a> last week, Bolsonaro said that new reserves would \u201cmake Brazil unviable\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, research shows that the destruction of the Amazon could also destroy Brazilian agribusiness, a central pillar of the local economy.<\/p>\n

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90%<\/p>\n

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\nof Brazilian agriculture is not irrigated and depends on rainfall
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More than 90% of Brazilian agriculture is not irrigated and depends on the rain the Amazon creates. Amazon deforestation reduces the amount of water produced by evapotranspiration and increases temperatures, also generating higher CO2<\/sub> emissions, according to Andr\u00e9 Guimar\u00e3es, executive director of the Amazonia Environmental Research Institute (IPAM).<\/p>\n

“China is among those most interested in safeguarding the water produced by the Amazon region because it makes commodity production cheaper,” he said.<\/p>\n

Agribusiness fights back<\/h2>\n

Some members of Brazil\u2019s agribusiness lobby are attempting to distance themselves from reports linking them to Amazon deforestation. The culprits, they say, are land grabbers seeking to profit from real estate speculation, not profitable and legal businesses.<\/p>\n

Luiz Cornacchioni, executive director of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association, says he\u2019s in discussions with the government on how to take more effective action against illegal deforestation and one of its main causes \u2013 land fraud.<\/p>\n

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7,400<\/p>\n

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\nthe average annual deforestation of the Amazon in square kilometres between 2007 and 2016
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“Sustainability is the name of the game. The sector cannot be harmed by criminals,\u201d he said. \u201cBrazilian agribusiness has already shown that it is possible to produce as well as preserve. We have a Forest Code that must be complied with. The government needs to apply the law and the penalties it establishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, the amount of soy planted in deforested areas grew by 27.5%, according to a report by the<\/a> Soy Moratorium, an environmental accord between soy producers, the government, and civil society to refrain from purchasing or planting in deforested areas in Amazon states Mato Grosso, Maranh\u00e3o, Tocantins, Par\u00e1, Rond\u00f4nia, or Amap\u00e1.<\/p>\n

Approximately 76% of crops planted in deforested areas are in Mato Grosso, the number one producing state nationwide. Nevertheless, there are signs that the accord works. The average rate of deforestation in the 89 municipalities of Mato Grosso is 6.5 times lower following the 2006 Soy Moratorium. Only 1% of soy in the Amazon region is planted in recently deforested areas.<\/p>\n

The forces of the just and honest must all be aligned, including the buyers of Brazilian commodities<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The notion that deforestation increases production is misleading, according to Ricardo Abramovay, an economist at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo. He argues that land investments should not concentrate on turning forest to pasture, but rather in technology to make it more productive.<\/p>\n

Between 1991 and 2017, Brazilian soy production soared 312%, while the planted area expanded 61%, demonstrating an increase in productivity, according to the watchdog Climate Observatory.<\/p>\n

Nor is deforesting in order to plant more yielding great results in Brazil. Between 2007 and 2016, the average yearly deforestation of 7,400 square kilometres translated into a 0.013% increase in Brazil\u2019s GDP, according to the Zero Forestation Working Group.<\/p>\n

“Destruction of the forest is not necessarily required to increase soy production”, Abramovay wrote in his 2018 book The Amazon Needs a Natural Knowledge Economy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

IPAM\u2019s Guimar\u00e3es made a distinction between productive law-abiding agribusiness and environmental crimes committed in the Amazon.<\/p>\n

“More than 90% of deforestation is illegal, the result of criminal acts by land grabbers, loggers, and gold miners,” he said. “If it is crime, the forces of the just and honest must all be aligned, including the buyers of Brazilian commodities.”<\/p>\n

The most vulnerable regions of the Amazon produce much more meat and soy for the domestic market than for export, researchers say. However, foreign demand for products from parts of the country where agriculture has less impact on the forest pushes producers focused on the domestic market towards regions with high deforestation rates.<\/p>\n

The complexity of the meat production chain and the lack of transparency in meatpacking operations also encourage bad practices, known as \u201ccattle laundering\u201d, by processing plants and their suppliers.<\/p>\n

An investigation<\/a> by Rep\u00f3rter Brasil<\/em> found that large companies in the sector, such as JBS, Marfrig, and Frigol, buy cattle from ranchers who have received fines in regions notorious for  deforestation and which are at the epicentre of fires currently raging in the Amazon.<\/p>\n

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65%<\/p>\n

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\nof deforested area is used for low-quality pasture
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Amazon cattle ranching is also relatively unproductive. The Amazonia Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) showed that 65% of deforested land is used for low-quality pasture. On average, each head of cattle in the region occupies an area equivalent to a football pitch.<\/p>\n

In total, an area twice the size of Germany has been deforested in the Amazon, according to Abramovay. Almost one fifth of it has been destroyed. In 1960 it was 1%.<\/p>\n

Brazil has shown that it can slow deforestation. Between 2003 and 2012, rates fell by 80%.<\/p>\n

However, since 2012 the pace has picked up and Brazil has begun to backtrack on an international commitment to bring annual deforestation down to 3,800 square kilometres next year.<\/p>\n

Some researchers predict<\/a> that deforestation in the Amazon could surpass 10,000 square kilometres this year.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s response<\/h2>\n

In contrast to French president Emmanuel Macron, who appears to have taken up protecting the Amazon as his newest political cause, the Chinese government has largely remained tight-lipped on the fires.<\/p>\n

However, it has downplayed suggestions that the country bears some responsibility for driving deforestation in the Amazon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe correlation is new to me,\u201d foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said at a an August 26 press conference<\/a>, in response to a question about about global beef consumption and the fires, which noted China\u2019s possible role as a major importer.<\/p>\n

China was aware of the fires and supported the Brazilian government in its efforts to fight them, he added.<\/p>\n

In a meeting with representatives from Brazilian agribusiness last month, Jingtao Chi, chairman of COFCO International, China\u2019s largest trading company, which imports a quarter of Brazil\u2019s soy, repeated \u201csustainability\u201d several times, according to Ipam’s Guimar\u00e3es.<\/p>\n

In January,<\/a> Jun Lyu, another Cofco executive, caused a stir by publishing an article urging the international community to combine efforts in combatting deforestation.<\/p>\n

Isabel Nepstad, a senior consultant for the Solidaridad Network, which monitors global supply chains, said that by joining the ranks of major international trading companies, Cofco is setting a good example for other Chinese companies.<\/p>\n

“Its announcements caught the attention of other companies in China and abroad,” she said. “But because other companies do not yet have sustainability departments and Cofco has the advantage of being a state-owned company with global operations, it will take time before we see more public commitments from Chinese players”.<\/p>\n

NGO Global Canopy, which maps production chains and their impact on tropical deforestation, has investigated supply chains in the beef and leather trade between Brazil and China, which are exposed to a \u201cdeforestation risk\u201d.<\/p>\n

The top 20 Chinese companies in these sectors do not have sustainability policies related to deforestation, despite their significant impact, Global Canopy found.<\/p>\n

“It is in fact a consumer market that directly impacts the expansion of Brazilian agribusiness,” said Andr\u00e9 Vasconcelos, a Latin America researcher at Global Canopy, who also works on Trase supply chain transparency tool.<\/p>\n

In an interview with UOL<\/a>, Chinese Minister-Counsellor Qu Yuhui said that the current crisis was “a bit fabricated” and that Brazil has one of the best standards for environmental conservation in the world.<\/p>\n

“Brazil has been consistent in protecting the environment,” he said. “It is not me recognising this [fact], but rather the Chinese government.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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