The World Wildlife Fund’s Jason Clay recently wrote a piece about the need for deforestation-free beef:
“The environmental impacts of deforestation are clear: it contributes to climate change, drought, soil degradation and erosion, water pollution, the spread of disease, and the loss of biodiversity. There are a number of social impacts as well from land conflicts to bonded and child labor, the displacement of indigenous cultures, and deterioration of water quality for drinking and fish, the most common source of protein in many affected areas.”
As featured in Fortune this week, global food companies like McDonald’s have committed to eliminating deforestation from food supply chains, and hope to source only deforestation-free beef by 2020.
Through our Forests and Agricultural Markets Initiative, the Moore Foundation is engaging with partners and focusing on soy and beef production — specifically in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado, and the Chaco in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia — to shift practices towards improved agricultural production of these globally traded commodities.
See the full blog post from Jason Clay: The future of beef is deforestation-free.
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