EU consumption of soy and deforestation
3 Mai 2017
Soy is the second largest agricultural driver of deforestation after cattle products (with agriculture responsible for about 70 per cent of all deforestation). According to a 2013 study for the European Commission, soy expansion was responsible for nearly half of the deforestation embodied in products imported into the European Union between 1990 and 2008.
EU farm policies have played a role in encouraging soy imports. Early versions of the Common Agricultural Policy incentivized EU farmers to produce meat and cereals rather than protein crops such as soy.
The EU has made a commitment to end its role in deforestation by 2020. This will remain an impossible goal while policies and practices encourage demand for soy, with little concern about the deforestation or human rights violations generated by its production.
Fern is calling for an EU Action Plan to ensure imports of forest-risk commodities are legally sourced and ecologically viable.
This is the second in a series of background notes on agricultural commodities.
To read a report on the EU Common Agricultural Policy, soy and deforestation click here.
References for the findings in this briefing note:
- http://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/pdf/1.%20Report%20analysis%20 of%20impact.pdf
- https://www.fern.org/stolengoods
- https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/agricultural-commodity-supply-chains-trade-consumption-and-deforestation
- Consumer Goods and Deforestation – An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture and Timber Plantations, 2014: www. forest-trends.org/documents/files/doc_4718.pdf
- http://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/pdf/1.%20Report%20analysis%20of%20impact.pdf
- https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/agricultural-commodity-supply-chains-trade-consumption-and-deforestation
- https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/agricultural-commodity-supply-chains-trade-consumption-and-deforestation
- Soy Barometer 2014, Research conducted by Profundo for the Dutch Soy Coalition: www.profundo.nl/files/download/Sojacoalitie1410a.pdf
- http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/esa/Global_persepctives/world_ag_2030_50_2012_rev.pdf
- Soy Barometer 2014, Research conducted by Profundo for the Dutch Soy Coalition: www.profundo.nl/files/download/Sojacoalitie1410a.pdf
- ABIOVE. Soja Plus. Program of Economic Management, Social and Environmental Responsibility of the Brazilian Soy
- Illegal Deforestation Monitor – Soy Profile: http://www.bad-ag.info/commodities/soy/
- http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024010/metahttp://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/impacts/
- http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/impacts/
- http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/impacts/
- Soy Barometer 2014, Research conducted by Profundo for the Dutch Soy Coalition: www.profundo.nl/files/download/Sojacoalitie1410a.pdf
- http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/guarani
- https://news.mongabay.com/2016/10/violence-against-indigenous-people-high-as-land-conflicts-heat-up/
- Soy Barometer 2014, Research conducted by Profundo for the Dutch Soy Coalition: www.profundo.nl/files/download/Sojacoalitie1410a.pdf
- Soy Barometer 2014, Research conducted by Profundo for the Dutch Soy Coalition: www.profundo.nl/files/download/Sojacoalitie1410a.pdf
- https://cofcointernational.com/about-cofco-international/
- https://www.fern.org/stolengoods
- Company Promises: How Businesses are Meeting Commitments to End Deforestation; Fern; March 2017: https://www.fern.org/sites/fern.org/files/Company%20promises.pdf
- http://www.responsiblesoy.org/?lang=en
- Company Promises: How Businesses are Meeting Commitments to End Deforestation; Fern; March 2017: https://www.fern.org/sites/fern.org/files/Company%20promises.pdf
- The EU Common Agricultural Policy, Feedstocks and Deforestation, Fern, May 201
- https://nelson.wisc.edu/sage/docs/publications/GibbsetalScience2015.pdf
- The EU Common Agricultural Policy, Feedstocks and Deforestation, Fern, May 2017
- The EU Common Agricultural Policy, Feedstocks and Deforestation, Fern, May 2017
- Figures obtained by the NGO Transport & Environment from FEDIOL, the EU vegetable oil and protein meal industry association
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-energy-biofuels-idUSKBN13H1EA
- New York Declaration on Forests
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Fern: Enforcing a Due Dilligence Based Regulation for Forest Risk Commodities
- Fern: Sustainable Supply Chains
Kategorien: Briefing Notes, Meat consumption, Brazil