World’s top food producers push back against EU deforestation rules

BRASILIA – The world’s largest agriculture producers are pushing back against new European Union rules that require proof that crops were not grown on deforested land, which producers say will add to the cost of making food.

Complying with the new rules will involve implementing full traceability to complex production chains – a task that is likely to be complicated and expensive. The requirement will apply to a wide range of products, from meat to palm oil, and that will add to agricultural costs at a time when food inflation is once again starting to pick up.

Meeting the rules will bring additional costs, but it also “brings us the certainty that customers will be served”, he said. “We have to set the bar high.” “Who is going to pay for this? It cannot be the producers,” said Dr Vanusia Nogueira, the president of the International Coffee Organisation.More firms report on deforestation, yet few have plans to stop it, says green reporting groupThe Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together account for about two-thirds of global output of cocoa, are studying a new pricing mechanism to account for the added costs.

Since 2009, shipments to Europe have already been controlled by a specific system that requires individual animal tracking. But now there is the need to expand the mechanism from the current 90 days of tracking prior to slaughter to a much longer period that starts from the animal’s birth, said Mr Fernando Sampaio, an executive at industry group Abiec.

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