As one of the most powerful commodity traders in Brazil, Cargill Inc. has worked to expand its business while fending off criticism that it's enabling the destruction of Amazon forests and savanna for soy farms.
The clearing of Brazil's climate-moderating tropical forests and grasslands has escalated under nationalist President Jair Bolsonaro, and Cargill in 2019 announced it would fail to meet its pledge to halt deforestation in Brazil by the following year.
Now the Minnesota-based agribusiness giant's Brazil operations are being challenged again, this time by human rights activists with the backing of environmentalists.
