Amazon Soy Moratorium

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1. Story
2. A voluntary agreement among the major soy traders, signed in 2006, not to purchase soy grown on land in the Amazon biome cleared after a stated cutoff date. It is the most studied private supply-chain governance instrument in the world, because it is one of the very few for which a before-and-after measurement exists: Gibbs and colleagues reported in 2015 that the share of soy expansion coming from newly deforested land in the Amazon biome fell from a substantial fraction before the agreement to a very small one after it. Two caveats matter as much as the result. The moratorium covers the Amazon biome only, and soy expansion moved to the Cerrado, where no equivalent agreement applies - so an instrument that demonstrably worked within its boundary also demonstrated how much of the problem a boundary can relocate. And it is voluntary and privately enforced, which makes it durable only for as long as the signatories and the domestic political and legal environment allow.
3. Knowledge
4. Amazon Deforestation
5. Cerrado
6. Amazon Soy Moratorium
7. Connections
8. Amazon Deforestation
9. Cerrado
10. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
11. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
12. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
13. BR-163 (Cuiaba-Santarem Highway)
14. Moisture Recycling
15. The Amazon Dieback Threshold
16. Forest Degradation
17. The Southeastern Amazon as a Carbon Source
18. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
19. PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)
20. Amazon Soy Moratorium
21. Construction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway begins
22. BR-163 opens between Cuiaba and Santarem
23. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
24. Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
25. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
26. Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
27. Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
28. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
29. The UN climate conference convenes at the mouth of the Amazon
30. Flying Rivers (Aerial Rivers)
31. Arc of Deforestation (Arco do Desmatamento)
32. Amazon Soy Moratorium
33. Evidence
34. 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.