Vital Forest Graphics

Increasing Chinese market (growing middle-class) for soya-fed

pork and poultry

(BSE)

Demand for biofuel

CHINA

and soya

Fear of bovine spongiform

encephalopathy

Right to claim more cleared land

Demand for meat

(BSE)

RUSSIA

Fear of bovine spongiform

encephalopathy

Controversial land claims

I n Intensive farming Amazonian deforestation in the global context Fear of avian flu Demand for Source: Woods Hole Research Center 2007; Amazon Institute for Environmental Research et al. 2006; Reuters 2008. Research, information collection and elaboration by Giulio Frigieri, University of Bologna, Italy, 2008. c r e a s e i n g l o b a l d e m a n d NORTH AMERICA EUROPE Fear of avian flu Foot and mouth disease eradication

Demand for

biofuel, meat and non GMO soya

Rural violence and assassinations

Global market reached through free trade

biofuel, meat and soya

Rise of land and food prices Forced displacement of small farmers and

Demand for

indigenous communities

commodities for local market

Conversion into soya fields

Land speculation

by clearing forest

Transport and industrial infrastructure development

pastures

into cattle

Conversion

Increase

in soya price

Profits

Deforestation of Amazonia

LATIN AMERICA

Rise in

Devaluation of

land prices

Brazilian currency boosting exports

Technological progress

Rise in

Pressure

commodity prices