CREATE Seminar Series 2021, Nelson Villoria, Kansas State University
Category
Seminar
Date
2021-09-24
Venue
Online (Zoom)
CREATE Seminar Series 2021
Friday, September 24, Nelson Villoria, Kansas State University, will present his paper "Leakage is Unlikely to Offset the Benefits of Brazil’s Soybean Zero-Deforestation Commitments." Please join us and see details below.
Time: 10:00 - 11 am, US Central Time Date: September 24 Link: Zoom Meeting ID: 851 0495 4437 Password: CREATE
Nelson Villoria, PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics. Kansas State University. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Leakage is Unlikely to Offset the Benefits of Brazil’s Soybean Zero-Deforestation Commitments
Zero-deforestation commitments (ZDC) promise to preserve tropical forests. Yet, production leakage to regions with laxer environmental regulations is perceived as a threat to ZDC success. We explore the extent to which leakage can offset the benefits of ZDC in Brazil’s soybeans. We consider a hypothetical Brazil-wide Soy Moratorium as well as complying with deforestation-free certification import requirements imposed by the European Union (EU). We find halting forest conversion to agriculture in Brazil has little effects in on other forest-rich regions, because the US compensates for changes in global soybean supply with limited land conversion. Additionally, the costs of differentiating the supply chains and the overlapping spatial footprint of the traders serving both the EU and other markets, leverages the ability of the EU to reduce deforestation in Brazil through supply-chain actions.
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