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should benefit from the global sustainability mote carbon sequestration, soil restoration and
push simply because it isn’t grown on deforested water conservation, but the country is still often
land. He said, “Our soy has a great track record viewed an environmental liability.
from an environmental perspective and from a Brazilian farmers are required by law to leave
sustainability perspective.” between 20% and 80% of their land unculti-

vated, and agribusinesses there have voluntarily
Brazil accused of backtracking under agreed not to source commodities from defor-
Bolsonaro ested rainforest. The government is working

Brazil used its conversion of forest and grass- to improve soil conditions on millions of acres
lands to challenge the United States as the of land through public programs like the Low
globe’s biggest producer of soybeans, surpassing Carbon Emission Agriculture and Recovery of
the U.S. in both 2017 and 2019. Brazil now has Degraded Pastures plans.
some of the world’s strictest land-use laws on the Still, Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions are
books, calling for the preservation of about 66% large and growing. In 2016, the country pro-
of its land to native vegetation while the country duced 1.4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas
spends hundreds of millions of dollars to pro- emissions, including 503 million metric tons

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