Soy Moratorium

The Soy Moratorium is an agreement established by signatory companies not to acquire soy from farms with deforested crops carried out after July 22, 2008 in the Amazon biome, aiming to eliminate deforestation from the soy production chain. The initiative is the world's most successful example of reconciling the development of large-scale agricultural production with environmental sustainability, in its most critical aspect: zero deforestation. It did not prevent the development of soybean farming, but prioritized the use of land opened before the Moratorium, therefore mitigating its advance on new deforestation.