Blocking soy cultivation in the Cerrado ecosystem could protect almost 4 million hectares

Through modeling and spatial data analysis, the team found that banning soy production in the Cerrado biome would be the most effective way to protect it long term. Though the risk agriculture may pose to the Cerrado will depend on global soy demand and other complexly interacting factors, the team found that expanding the Soy Moratorium to include this unique ecosystem could protect 3.6 million hectares by 2050.