Global Witness NGO says Cargill is buying soybeans from farms in Bolivia linked to deforestation, writes EFE news agency in its latest report. Since 2017, these farms have cleared more than 20,000 hectares of forest. This area is bigger than Minneapolis in the U.S. The report from Global Witness looks at five regions in Bolivia […]
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