Livestock in Bolivia: exports are expanded, forests are reduced

Published 2021년 2월 21일

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In 2020, Bolivia exported over 14 million kilos of beef to China, Peru, Ecuador, and the Republic of Congo, generating over $60 million for a few ranchers. This coincided with forest fire seasons that burnt over 10 million hectares of forest, leading to the expansion of agricultural and livestock areas. A study by the Friends of Nature Foundation found that agroindustrial activity increased by 229% from 1985 to 2019, leading to deforestation. The new MAS government plans to triple the cattle population by 2025. The majority of farms with export permits are owned by local businessmen, with a few held by large Bolivian business groups and foreign capital.

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* This is a journalistic collaboration between MongabayLatam, Pýgina Siete and the Environmental Information Network In the year 2020, when the pandemic paralyzed the world, Bolivia exported more than 14 million kilos of beef to China, Peru, Ecuador and the Republic of Congo. The proceeds from the sale of this immense shipment of meat benefited a few ranchers who earned an income of more than $ 60 million. This takeoff in exports coincided, in addition, with two seasons of forest fires that devastated more than 10 million hectares in Bolivia. An emergency that was associated with a series of supreme decrees that promoted, precisely, the expansion of the agricultural and livestock frontiers in the regions of Santa Cruz and Beni, which are most affected by the fire and controlled burns. Recently, the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) has just completed a study that estimates deforestation in Bolivia between 1986 and 2019. The figure is 6 million 922 thousand hectares of forest, an ...

Source: Paginasiete