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The Ag Supply Chain Working to Curb Deforestation
While I was yanking your chain on Wednesday, the New York Times reported that Archer Daniels Midland is rolling out a proposal to "assess the impact of its supply chains on forests and other areas that have high conservation value. It will formally announce details of its policy at its annual meeting on May 7," the Times wrote.
Effectively, ADM and others are working to make sure their commodities are not sourced from land coming from forest-clearing around the globe. Forests, particularly rain forests, are the planets natural carbon sinks, but across the world forests are eroding due to clearing efforts to exand mass production certain crops.
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ADM will work with a non-profit group to map out its supply chain and examine how that affects global forest systems.
ADM is seeking to match some of the work done by other companies such as Cargill and Kellogg.
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