The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
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.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Amazon Soy Moratorium · policy · Brazil · not located
- Amazon Deforestation · ecological phenomenon · Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Brazil's Soy Moratorium
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.
Science (AAAS) · 2015 · Partly verified
Gibbs, H. K. and colleagues, Science, volume 347 (2015)
Recorded on Amazon Soy Moratorium
- INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
- Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
- The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
- Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
- Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
- Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
Related
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- Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record · 1995
- INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series · 1988