MINNEAPOLIS, MN–One year after Cargill announced a commitment to eliminate deforestation and land conversion from its soy supply chains in South America “by 2025,” the company has subtly extended the deadline to “the end of 2025.” This 12-month delay comes amid alarming new data showing rapid deforestation in Brazil, the overwhelming majority of it driven…
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Report Calls on Cargill to Keep its Deforestation and Conversion Promise
New Report Includes Current Companies Illegally Sourcing for Cargill Minneapolis, MN—Today, Stand.earth, in partnership with AidEnvironment and 13 other international organizations, released a report detailing a policy framework needed for Cargill Inc. to reach its November 2023 commitment to a deforestation and conversion-free supply chain in Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina by 2025. In addition to…
Cargill Consistently Violates Environmental, Indigenous and Human Rights
São Paulo, Brazil—A new report written by an investigative journalism group, Reporter Brasil, in partnership with Stand.earth reveals that the company Cargill Inc., is consistently violating environmental, Indigenous and human rights despite commitments claiming otherwise. The report dives into Cargill’s current policies within the environmental space as it relates to soy farming and sourcing, including…
Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Mobilize Against Railway Mega-project That Threatens Rights and the Rainforest
PHOTOS AND VIDEOS HERE (Credit @wellkumaruara) Novo Progresso, Pará State, Brazil–This morning, around 100 Indigenous protestors from the Munduruku, Apiaká and Kayapó peoples disrupted a hearing to promote the construction of a mega-railroad, which they say violates their right to consultation and imperils the Amazon rainforest. Called by Brazilian senator Zequinha Marinho, today’s “Regional Mobilization…
African Child Laborers Sue Cargill, Others For Exploitation on Cocoa Farms
WASHINGTON D.C.–Late last night, International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) filed a lawsuit on behalf of nine children against Cargill, Mars, and Mondelēz for profiting from brutal conditions classified as the “worst forms” of child labor on the plantations where they source their cocoa in Ghana, West Africa. A Brazilian court found Cargill guilty of using child…
Agribusiness Giant Cargill Commits to Eliminate Deforestation
This morning Cargill announced a commitment to end deforestation and land conversion in three South American countries by 2025. Cargill has a track record of making commitments around child labor, deforestation, and slavery in their supply chain but have rarely followed through. Throughout the last seven months, the Cargill campaign housed at Stand.earth has applied…
Cargill Wants to Expand its Destruction in the Amazon
Despite failing to meet legal requirements, the U.S.-based corporation operates two ports exporting soy from Pará. Now it wants to build a third. Though the project has not yet left the drawing board, the Public Prosecutor’s Office suspects the proposed site around the Abaetetuba islands was irregularly acquired Read the full article
Indigenous Leader, Beka Munduruku, is here to confront the Cargill-MacMillan family
Beka Munduruku, a 21-year-old Indigenous leaderfrom the remote Sawre Muybu village of the Brazilian Amazon traveled to the US (October 9-15) to deliver a message from her people to the family owners of Cargill, Inc., the world’s largest agribusiness company. Her visit to the company’s Minneapolis, Minnesota headquarters marks the first time an Indigenous leader…
More Cargill-Linked Deforestation Unearthed; Environmental, Human Rights Organizations Call on Family Owners to Act
September 6, 2023–Today, a coalition of environmental and human rights organizations published open letters in the hometown newspapers of members of the Cargill-MacMillan family calling on them to eliminate the destruction of nature and human rights abuses in the supply chain of their company, Cargill Inc. Stand.Earth, Amazon Watch, Global Witness, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Eko,…