Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

By Daniel C. Nepstad, D. Mcgrath, Claudia M. Stickler, A. Alencar, Andrea A. Azevedo, Briana Swette, T. Bezerra, M. DiGiano, J. Shimada, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta and 7 more. Science, 2014

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The climate responsibilities of industrial carbon producers (2015, background): “Corporations engaged in mining, pulp and paper manufacturing and the marketing of soy, beef and palm oil have responded to such pressures to go beyond compliance with legal standards for environmental and social sustainability (Gunningham et al. 2004; Prno and Slocombe 2012; Nepstad et al. 2014).”
Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of forest-risk commodities (2015, background): “For lower values, the recent and dramatic drop in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is reflected in lower total LUC area and emissions embodied in production.”
REDD+ on the ground: A case book of subnational initiatives across the globe (2014, background): “It has been argued that the recent successful anti-deforestation policies at the national level have emphasized ‘sticks’ over ‘carrots,’ putting most opportunity costs of avoided deforestation on Amazon land users, which calls into question the political sustainability of these drastic reductions (B”
What causes deforestation in Indonesia? (2019, background): “…Brazil suggests that, while policy interventions aimed at addressing large-scale drivers of forest loss have been at least partially successful at slowing deforestation (Nepstad et al 2014), interventions addressing small-scale drivers of change have had relatively little impact (Godar et al 2014).”
Global demand for gold is another threat for tropical forests (2015, background): “While deforestation due to other land changes has decelerated in this region (Nepstad et al 2014), golddriven deforestation accelerated after the global economic crisis of 2007.”
Feedback between drought and deforestation in the Amazon (2020, background): “The role of governance In 2019, the rates of deforestation and fire occurrence in Brazil were unusually high for a year with normal rainfall levels [15], whereas during most of our study period, those rates were gradually declining due to strong forest governance [58].”
The Forests of the Amazon and Cerrado Moderate Regional Climate and Are the Key to the Future (2017, background): “Together, these efforts greatly reduced Amazon deforestation rates in the mid- and late-2000s, while soy and corn production increased (Gibbs, Munger, et al., 2015; Gibbs, Rausch, 2015; Macedo, 2012; Nepstad et al., 2014).”
System complexity and policy integration challenges: The Brazilian Energy- Water-Food Nexus (2019, background): “23) and beef produced on recently deforested land and steps to meet technical standards in foreign markets [46,100,101], including a cer-”
Did Ranchers and Slaughterhouses Respond to Zero‐Deforestation Agreements in the Brazilian Amazon? (2016, background): “…traders who process and sell raw agricultural goods and the retailers who buy from them are now more responsive to demands for deforestationfree production (Nepstad et al. 2006, 2010, 2014; Butler & Laurance 2008; Dauvergne & Lister 2012; Brannstrom et al. 2012; UN 2014; Gibbs et al. 2015).”
The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South‐South Telecouplings (2016, background): “As a response to rising conservation concerns, policies limiting deforestation have recently been implemented in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (Gasparri & le Polain de Waroux 2014), with mixed success (Nepstad et al. 2014).”