Miller Magazine Issue: 127 July 2020

81 ARTICLE MILLER / JULY 2020 If you are a trader, you can ask your supplier for the registry number. You can then use this number on the system to see, for instance, if their registry is acti- ve, pending or cancelled. If it is cancelled, it could be because the farm overlays with protected areas like an indigenous territory. The Federal Environmental Agency maintains a list of environmental embargoes, some of which are because of illegal deforestation. IBAMA puts in the public domain areas that that have been found to be breaching our envi- ronmental laws. If you buy soybeans directly from the far- mer, you can cross-check your supplier name with this list. Another example is the Public Prosecutor’s Office web- site, which includes lawsuits related to environmental and social issues like land conflicts. It will show you if you are buying from someone who has a lawsuit outstanding. There are many other initiatives and resources we fe- ature in the Soy Toolkit. We have mapped over 100 of them, including tools that can help you with traceabi- lity, continuous improvement programmes for farmers, or information on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) re- lated to policy implementation being reported by supp- ly chain companies. This snapshot of the sort of tools and resources ava- ilable can help to give companies a flavour of how the Soy Toolkit can help them to implement their responsib- le sourcing policies for soy produced in Brazil. We are able to offer free-of-charge training sessions for compa- nies – please see www.soytoolkit.net for details of how to request this. The Soy Toolkit has been developed by Proforest as part of the Good Growth Partnership’s Responsible De- mand Project, thanks to financial support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through World Wildlife Fund (WWF). References USDA, 2020. Available at: https://apps.fas.usda.gov / psdonline/app/index.html#/app/advQuery Global Forest Watch, 2020. Available at: https://blog. globalforestwatch.org/data-and-research/global-tree- cover-loss-data-2019/ Mapbiomas, 2020. Available at: http://alerta.mapbio - mas.org/en/relatorios?cama_set_language=en Pendrill et al, 2019, Deforestation displaced: tra- de in forest-risk commodities and the prospects for a global forest transition (https://iopscience.iop.org/ar- ticle/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0d41); Carneiro Filho et al, 2016, The expansion of soybean production in the Cerrado (https://www.inputbrasil.org/wp-content/up- loads/2016/11/The-expansion-of-soybean-producti- on-in-the-Cerrado_Agroicone_INPUT.pdf); Henders et al, 2015, Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of fo- rest-risk commodities (https://iopscience.iop.org/artic- le/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125012/meta); Gasparri et al, 2014, The Coupling of South American Soybean and Cattle Production Frontiers: New Challenges for Conser- vation Policy and Land Change Science (https://conbio. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12121); Arima et al, 2011, Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon (https://iopscience. iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024010/meta). Agrosatelite, 2020, Available at: https://agrosatelite. com.br/cases/#expansao-agricola. ABIOVE, 2020, ava- ilable at: https://abiove.org.br/en/relatorios/morato- ria-da-soja-relatorio-12o-ano/. See Forest 500 (https://forest500.org/), CDP (https:// www.cdp.net/en), Supply Change (http://supply-change. org/), Cerrado Manifesto Statement of Support (https:// cerradostatement.fairr.org/).