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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently reported that the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé, has stopped buying Cargill’s Brazilian soy because of concerns about the link to deforestation. Via EcoVadis 
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tropical deforestation in the southern hemisphere is accelerating global warming and threatening world food production by distorting rainfall patterns across Europe,
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I'm not sure I would characterize Brazilian management as a "wonderful success story" but the overall global pattern is clear. We simply don't have the capacity to stop altering these systems and we beginning to see real, realized feedback loops on larger atmospheric patterns necessary for food production, silvaculture, etc.
Here is the original paper:
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v5/n1/full/nclimate2430.html
If you would like to see the current boogy man for deforestation (and want to be kept up at night with worry) check out the latest disappointing news from Indonesia:
http://www.eco-business.com/news/half-indonesias-deforestation-occurs-outside-concession-areas/
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