Soybean Consumption in China Endangers Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest

posted on May 30th, 2011 in Amazon Jungle, Brazil, Environment

Last year, Brazil registered a 27% increase in Amazon rainforest destruction from the previous year, much of that due to increased production of soy beans for China

China’s Interest in Farmland Makes Brazil Uneasy

May 26, 2011

NYT

URUAÇU, Brazil — When the Chinese came looking for more soybeans here last year, they inquired about buying land — lots of it.

Officials in this farming area would not sell the hundreds of thousands of acres needed. Undeterred, the Chinese pursued a different strategy: providing credit to farmers and potentially tripling the soybeans grown here to feed chickens and hogs back in China…

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