The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed

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1. Story
2. The major soy traders operating in Brazil agree not to buy soy grown on Amazon-biome land cleared after a stated cutoff. It is a private agreement with no statutory force, and it becomes the most closely studied supply-chain intervention in tropical agriculture precisely because a clean before-and-after measurement is possible.
3. Knowledge
4. Amazon Deforestation
5. Amazon Soy Moratorium
6. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
7. Connections
8. Amazon Soy Moratorium
9. Amazon Deforestation
10. Amazon Deforestation
11. Cerrado
12. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
13. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
14. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
15. BR-163 (Cuiaba-Santarem Highway)
16. Moisture Recycling
17. The Amazon Dieback Threshold
18. Forest Degradation
19. The Southeastern Amazon as a Carbon Source
20. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
21. PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)
22. Amazon Soy Moratorium
23. Construction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway begins
24. BR-163 opens between Cuiaba and Santarem
25. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
26. Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
27. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
28. Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
29. Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
30. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
31. The UN climate conference convenes at the mouth of the Amazon
32. Evidence
33. Supports the finding that the share of Amazon soy expansion occurring on newly deforested land fell sharply after the 2006 moratorium, and the observation that expansion shifted toward the Cerrado where no equivalent agreement applied. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; the before-and-after percentages are deliberately not quoted.