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Soybean, Mato Grosso (Brazil)
Mato Grosso, Brazil12.60°S 55.70°W
computed criticality19/100
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Brazil leading world exporter (≈105 Mt, 2024/25); Mato Grosso ≈28% of the harvest
2024Fault line
Brazil has become the world's leading soybean exporter, and Mato Grosso alone supplies more than a quarter of it, the protein of livestock the world over, China first. But the bean leaves raw for Asian crushers and the ABCD trading houses, which set prices from Chicago and Geneva. Expansion into the Cerrado and Amazonia ties this global food dependence to deforestation.
Actors
Mato Grosso growers
ABCD trading houses (Cargill, Bunge, ADM, Dreyfus)
COFCO (China)
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