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August 20, 2020 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
For the first six months of 2020, Chain Reaction Research (CRR) has detected a total of 19,894 hectares (ha) of deforestation within known oil palm concessions in Indonesia,
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August 11, 2020 |
Soy • Latin America
Brazilian soy exports have risen steeply amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of attractive exchange rates, agribusiness expansion, US-China tensions, and efforts to mitigate
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March 27, 2020 |
Palm Oil, Soy • Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia
Editor’s note: We hope that you are healthy and productive as we all grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of what is ahead. The CRR team is hard at work to
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December 5, 2018 |
The biggest deforester this year in Southeast Asia has been the Malaysian company Bintulu Lumber Development (BLD), which cleared 1,702 ha of peat and 1,307 ha of peat forest on
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October 9, 2018 |
Soy • Latin America
Higher Chinese soy imports from Brazil could lead to increased levels of deforestation in the Amazon and the Cerrado. The U.S. trade war with China, which includes tariffs on
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August 2, 2018 |
Soy • Latin America
Amid the U.S.-China trade war, China is importing more soy from Brazil while the United States exports more soy to the European Union and other outlets, which may increase
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July 27, 2018 |
Southeast Asia
Despite a stop work order, TH Plantations deforested 127 hectares (ha) of peat forest between March 17 and July 25, 2018 (see maps below). Figure 1: 127 ha deforestation of peat
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June 21, 2018 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
In 1985, 57 percent of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, or 25 million hectares (ha), was covered by natural forest. By 2016, that number decreased to 11 million ha, equaling to a
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May 24, 2018 |
Soy • Latin America
As a result of “Operation Soy Sauce”, Reuters reported May 23, 2018 that the Brazilian government environmental agency Ibama and federal prosecutors have fined Bunge, Cargill,
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May 3, 2018 |
Palm Oil • Southeast Asia
In 2017, Chain Reaction Research analysis showed that 74 percent of SE Asia’s palm oil refining capacity was covered by No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE)