Oct 22, 2025 | Deforestation
A new report by the Ngo Coffee Watch exposes deforestation trends in Brazil related to coffee production. This is a key issue at COP30, which opens in November in Belem. The producers’ trade association is pushing the EU to once again postpone the...
Apr 22, 2025 | Deforestation, Feeding the Congo Basin, FeedVSFood, Human rights
Plantations et Huileries du Congo, the DRC’s leading palm oil producer, plans to exponentially increase its palm oil production, but this strategy could exacerbate land conflicts. Francesco De Augustinis and Jonas Kiriko This story was supported by the Pulitzer...
Dec 31, 2024 | Deforestation, Feeding the Congo Basin, FeedVSFood
More than 25 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo suffer food insecurity, largely due to insecurity and inadequate infrastructure, but national and international strategies mostly incentivize massive agro-industrial plantations, even at the expense of...
Mar 21, 2022 | Deforestation, FeedVSFood
International Day of Forests. The shadow of the war up to the Amazon: deforestation advances. In February 2022, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new record and according to several analysts in the coming months the increase in demand for soybeans and other...
Dec 28, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming
China has become the biggest importer of the Brazilian soy, used to produce feed for farmed animals. But this rush for commodities is having consequences on environment and global food security “Sorriso” in Portuguese means “smile”: it is the name of a town in the...
Dec 16, 2020 | Deforestation, Factory farming
Italy uses 3.7 million tons / year of soy for animal production. Only 689 thousand tons are of national origin, all the rest (3.2 million tons) is imported, mainly from Argentina, Brazil, United States, Paraguay. On December 2, 2019 a ship carrying 31,000 tons of...
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