France develops a tool to find out if imported soy comes from deforestation

Soybean

France

Published Nov 30, 2021

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On January 1, the French presidency of the EU begins. France has already said that one of its priorities will be to fight deforestation. Many times, companies that buy soybeans in South America complain of not knowing whether or not that soy comes from deforested forests. For this reason and to help soybean buyers, the French government has launched a tool, which works as of today and which has been developed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the NGO Canopée. For its preparation they have used information from satellites, which they have crossed with anonymized customs data, to protect trade secrets. Initially, the tool is only available for soybeans imported from Brazil, because soybeans have the largest footprint in terms of acreage (of imported raw materials) and 60% come from Brazil.

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On January 1, the French presidency of the EU begins. France has already said that one of its priorities will be to fight deforestation. Many times, companies that buy soybeans in South America complain of not knowing whether or not that soy comes from deforested forests. For this reason and to help soybean buyers, the French government has launched a tool, which works as of today and which has been developed by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the NGO Canopée. For its preparation they have used information from satellites, which they have crossed with anonymized customs data, to protect trade secrets. Initially, the tool is only available for soybeans imported from Brazil, because soybeans have the largest footprint in terms of surface area (of imported raw materials) and 60% come from Brazil. Further development is planned to cover other countries and other raw materials. It is also planned to be updated every year. In 2018, France committed to ending deforestation ...

Source: Agrodigital