Dutch support soy transport mega-project, posing major risk to Amazon

Mongabay
May 29, 2018, 9:23 am249 pts
Grain silos in Miritituba on the Tapajós River, where soy and other commodities from Mato Grosso state are transferred from trucks onto ships for the trip downriver to the Atlantic coast for export. The Dutch, with their history of infrastructure development, are big backers of the development of Brazil’s…

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