Cattle Suppliers Series Episode 4: Cattle Ranching on Indigenous Land: How to tackle land regularisation?
The fourth episode focuses on the legal impossibility of regulating indigenous land. Land conflicts in indigenous territories have increased in recent years as has the vulnerability of these peoples. The video talks about the importance of monitoring and control mechanisms to block the purchase of cattle from overlapping areas. Ana Paula Valdiones, coordinator of the Environmental Transparency Program of the Centro de Vida Institute (ICV) opens the video with the help of others, such as Erich Masson, prosecutor of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office in Mato Grosso.
Infographic: Recommendations for Leather Traceability
Publication brings step by step traceability to the bovine leather chain in Brazil. Beef on Track, March 2021.
Minerva Foods and Imaflora announce partnership in program to measure carbon balance of South American farms
Carbon On Track will collect primary data regarding carbon balance and present the information on a digital platform.
The leather industry shows potential to increase traceability
According to the Brazilian Association of Beef Exporters (Abiec), 39.5 million head of cattle were slaughtered in 2020.