RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian soy farmers are being paid for promoting sustainable agriculture, according to the organizers of a new initiative involving 55 growers in Maranhão and Mato Grosso states, in the heart of Brazil’s farm country.
The program, which rewards producers for their “environmental services,” highlights mounting pressure on farmers and businesses to produce food while driving a transition to deforestation-free supply chains, neutralizing carbon emissions in the process.
In doing so it creates a financial incentive for protecting the environment and resolves a common complaint of farmers in Brazil - that they do not benefit . . .
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