概要

New supply chain interventions offer promise to reduce deforestation from ex-pansion of commercial agriculture, as more multinational companies agree tostop sourcing from farms with recent forest clearing. This paper analyses the zero-deforestation cattle agreements signed by major meatpacking companies inthe Brazilian Amazon state of Par ́a using property-level data on beef supply chains. The panel analysis of daily purchases by slaughterhouses before and after the agreements demonstrates that they now avoid purchasing from properties with deforestation, which was not the case prior to the agreements.