Christopher Botsford for Business Times “Europe Needs to Put its Money Where its Mouth is to Stop Deforestation in Southeast Asia”

Christopher Botsford for Business Times “Europe Needs to Put its Money Where its Mouth is to Stop Deforestation in Southeast Asia”

Christopher Botsford for Business Times - "Europe Needs to Put its Money Where its Mouth is"

A recent article by ADM Capital’s Christopher Botsford, published in Business Times, on why Europe needs to engage and invest more to stop deforestation in South-east Asia. 

Whilst a new European Union regulation which bans the imports of products made from agricultural commodities grown on recently deforested land, is a positive development for the transition of production to more sustainable practices. New regulation’s like these, implemented by the global North often don’t take into account the real-life impacts on small-scale family and smallholder farmers who will be most impacted and most challenged to comply with new strict requirements.

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