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Why the EU Deforestation Regulation won’t sugar coat the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

In June 2019, after more than 20 years of tortuous negotiations, a bilateral trade agreement was agreed between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur bloc of nations - Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay (European Union...

20/04/2023

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Not just about trade

Communities from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay give their views on the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement

01/02/2023

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Measuring the impact of the EU-Mercosur Trade deal on land use, forests, and the people who depend on them.

Ultimately, the impacts of trade agreements reverberate in local communities, in the individual lives of women, men and children, and in the destruction of the unique areas of forest and habitats which surround them. 

This...

02/12/2020

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The EU-Mercosur trade agreement: What is it, and what could it mean for forests and human rights?

In June 2019 the European Union (EU) and Mercosur (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay) announced that they had reached an ‘in principle’ agreement on the content of a bilateral trade agreement which they had been negotiating,...

02/06/2020

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100 Days of Bolsonaro - Ending the EU’s role in the assault on the Amazon

A new reality has unfolded in Brazil in the 100 days since Jair Bolsonaro became leader of the world’s fourth largest democracy.

Incursions by armed invaders on Indigenous Peoples’ lands have surged.

An assault on the country’s...

10/04/2019

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EU consumption of beef and deforestation

Cattle and deforestation

Beef production is the biggest agricultural driver of global forest loss. Forests in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, all members of the Mercosur trade bloc, are being destroyed on an epic scale to make...

26/05/2018

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EU consumption of soy and deforestation

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...

03/05/2017