VOLUNTARY MONITORING PROTOCOL FOR CATTLE SUPPLIERS IN THE CERRADO – Draft 1 for consultation – July, 2021
Building from the experience of Imaflora working with the 3 largest meatpackers and the 3 largest retailers in Brazil in the harmonization of the Amazon Protocol, Proforest and Imaflora have partnered together to develop a voluntary monitoring protocol for cattle suppliers in the Cerrado, with a similar objective of facilitating the implementation of best practices for monitoring direct cattle suppliers in the biome.
Click here to access the document: https://www.beefontrack.org/public/media/arquivos/1628706482-2021-imaflora-protocolo_de_monitoramento_cerrado-ingles_compressed.pdf
Repórter Brasil: BNDES finances beef companies that buy from deforested farms and use slave labour
Research by NGO Repórter Brasil shows that, despite the bank's internal by-laws forbidding the slaughter of animals in illegal areas, control is still lacking and contracts continue to be upheld
Understanding the Monitoring Protocol
This protocol, created by several hands, became official on July 1, 2020.
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