A new report reveals that the food giant Cargill is systematically failing on commitments to a deforestation-free soy supply chain in the near future. Since 2017, Cargill has directly purchased soy from farms that have razed 20,000 hectares of forest in Bolivia. The company's plans for sourcing future soy supplies also put over three million hectares of forest at risk of deforestation.

This book examines the soybean’s rise to dominance as one of the world's most important and controversial crops. Through charting the history of the bean, the book reflects on the globalisation of the agrifood system, changing production systems, power imbalances, institutional governance, capital accumulation and social history.

Rising global demands for soy as animal feed is contributing to deforestation in the Global South. Every year the UK imports around 3 million tonnes of soy, mostly for pig and poultry feed, requiring an area the size of Wales to produce. This report details the urgent need to transition away from this pig and poultry feed model and toward a more sustainable and localised mode of production.

This paper assesses the impacts of corporate zero-deforestation supply chain commitments (ZDCs) in Brazil. It finds that in the Brazilian Amazon, where the Soy Moratorium ZDC has been both adopted and implemented, the commitment reduced direct deforestation for soy by 57% between 2006 and 2015 in the municipalities that it covered. In the Cerrado, in contrast, none of the seven companies (covering 66% of soy production) that have adopted ZDCs there appear to have fully implemented them - if they had done so, deforestation for soy in the biome could have been reduced by 46% between 2006 and 2015, estimates the paper.

This paper models the extent to which intensification of soybean and maize production in Brazil could help to reduce agricultural expansion and protect ecosystems including the Amazon rainforest.

This infographic from international NGO WWF illustrates how much soy, in the form of animal feed, goes into producing animal products such as pork, cheese, salmon, yoghurt and eggs. It also explains the impacts of soy production on land use and ecosystem conversion.

This book examines the ecological, social, economic and institutional impacts of industrial crops such as soybeans, cotton, maize and jatropha, using case studies from around the world.

This paper examines three scenarios for animal-source food production in the European Union under two constraints: halting all imports of soybeans and soybean meal used as animal feed, and not using any additional land for animal feed cultivation (either inside or outside the EU).