Brazil requests Spain’s support to achieve the suspension of the EU anti-deforestation law

Julio García-Aquí Europa The Minister of Agriculture of Brazil, Carlos Fávaro, has met with his Spanish counterpart, Luis Planas, to ask for support from Pedro Sánchez's Executive for the request that Brasilia has made to the European Union to achieve the suspension of its anti-deforestation law. The Brazilian request is due to the fact that the deforestation law will force Brazilian producers exporting soybeans, meat, wood, rubber, coffee, cocoa and palm oil to comply with certain verification processes in order to ensure that these products do not come from areas with deforestation, according to Electomanía. Fávaro has emphasized that Brazil has 90 million hectares of degraded pastures, of which 40 are “highly viable for food production,” which is why “there is no need to advance in the forests to intensify production,” reads a statement from the Brazilian ministerial portfolio. During his meeting, held within the framework of the bilateral meetings between ministers of the participating countries of the G20 Working Group on Agriculture, the Brazilian minister has stated that he is “monitoring the scenario and the struggles of European and Spanish producers to remain competitive in the face of the restrictions imposed by climate change.” Shortly before, Fávaro had a meeting with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Januz Wojciechowski, to whom he had delivered a letter requesting the suspension of the deforestation law for Brazil. The Latin American country considers that its Forest Code is already one of the strictest in the world and that, since the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, came to power, the fight against deforestation has become one of the “priority policies”. In reference to degraded pastures, the Brazilian minister has asked for the help of the EU to give “continuity” to its commitment to zero deforestation by 2030, for which he has asked for the review of some measures that penalize “small and medium producers in the process of development”.

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