SAO PAULO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A farmers' lobby in Brazil is seeking to end a two-decade-long agreement that forbids grain traders from buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon ...

The Amazon Rainforest is under attack from many human activities. Deforestation is a big problem, mainly because of farming for cattle and soybeans. Over 40 years, about 17% of the forest has been ...

A justice on Brazil's top court on Thursday suspended a law from the country's top soy-producing state that would end tax ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Dozens of environmental nonprofits issued a manifesto Thursday condemning new laws in Brazilian states that threaten to dismantle the Amazon soy moratorium — a landmark ...

However, new laws recently enacted in the Amazon states of Mato Grosso, Brazil’s largest soybean producer, and neighboring Rondonia have cut tax incentives for processing and trade companies ...

to stop trading soybeans associated with deforestation ... Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil soared 85% in 2019, compared with the previous year, official data showed ...