A Call on the Cargill-MacMillan Family to Ensure that Cargill Keeps its Commitment to End Deforestation and Land-Conversion in South America.
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Cargill Announces Commitment to Eliminate Deforestation and Land Conversion in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay by 2025
In Brazil’s Amazon, Cargill grain ports meet local resistance
Cargill-MacMillan Family Refuses to Meet With Visiting Indigenous Leader
‘Our world hangs by a thread’: Indigenous activist asks US agri giant to stop destroying Amazon rainforest
Cargill Wants to Expand Its Destruction in the Amazon
A Grain of Truth
As plea to the Cargill-MacMillan family to show leadership by eliminating human rights abuses and the destruction of nature from Cargill’s supply chain.
Analysis by Repórter Brasil
Repórter Brasil has been investigating Cargill’s activities in Brazil since 2003. This analysis is a summary of the history of grievances reported about Cargill in Brazil, with an emphasis on recent years.
Sodrugestvo: Soy Trader Linked to Brazilian Deforestation, Russian Finances
“A sample of 73 soybean supplying farms to Aliança Agrícola do Cerrado shows 830 ha of native vegetation clearing between 2018-2022 in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado biomes. Aliança Agrícola do Cerrado supplies soybeans from the Amazon and Cerrado biomes to ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Cofco”
Cargill, Amaggi and Cofco buy family soybeans with embargoed and set on fire in Mato Grosso
Repórter Brasil showed that Cargill and other agricultural traders bought soy from a family of farmers with interdicted and burned areas in Mato Grosso. The soybean production took place in areas of adjoining farms, where Brazilian environmental agencies found illegal deforestation. The family supplying the company is being investigated by the Federal Prosecution Service and the Mato Grosso State Prosecution Service and has also been fined by the State Environment Secretariat.