Food retailers drive ban on Amazonian deforestation
ENDS Report 379, August 2006, p. 26
23 August 2006
Pressure from food companies, fuelled by Greenpeace, has forced major global soya traders to agree to a two-year moratorium on sourcing soya from newly deforested land in the Amazon.
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Categories:
- Products & Supply Chain;
- Biodiversity / conservation;
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing;
- Food & drink;
- Retail & wholesale;
- Greenpeace;
- WWF;
- ASDA Group Limited;
- McDonald's Corporation;
- Cargill plc;
- Waitrose Limited;
- Marks & Spencer p.l.c.;
- ADM [USE Archer Daniels Midland Company];
- Agricultural Industries Confederation;
- Bunge;
- Cert ID Ltd;
- Louis Dreyfus Corporation;
- Grupo Amaggi;
- TÜV Rheinland Group
