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| A huge area of 1645 hectares in Gleba do Pacoval, 100km from Santarem, Amazon, Brazil. Source: Greenpeace. |
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A new “soy rush” has been kick- started, and large-scale farm producers from all
over Brazil are flocking to the Amazon forest in hopes of striking it rich with
this golden crop. Yet all this comes at a price. Communities - most often those
found in the forest - are often violently expelled from their lands in the wake
of this uncontrolled scramble to plant soy.
For Brazil, it’s all in the
name of progress. Still, to ask those whom have been chased from their lands and
have seen first-hand the ecological wrath which has followed in the wake of soy
in the region of Santarem, this new cash crop in the Amazon has brought nothing
but destruction and misery.
For more information
www.greenpeace.org
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