Brazil’s soya moratorium slowed Amazon deforestation. Now it’s challenged

Agência Pública

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Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) will have the final say on maintaining a trade agreement created almost 20 years ago to prevent deforestation linked to agribusiness in the world's largest tropical rainforest, the so-called soy moratorium. The decision could safeguard – or jeopardize – an area the size of the state of Pernambuco, which could be opened up for the expansion of soy cultivation in the Amazon, according to a study consulted by Ag…