Cargill
HEADQUARTERS: India Strategic Hub • FOUNDED: 1979
Cargill is a privately held American global food corporation. It is the largest private corporation in the United States and has been repeatedly named as a principal driver of rainforest deforestation and land clearance in South America's Amazon and Cerrado biomes.
Timeline of Global Infractions & Audits
Satellite tracking traced large-scale soy supply chains back to recently deforested land in the crucial Cerrado savanna in Brazil, in defiance of soy moratorium covenants.
Accused by human rights groups of sourcing agricultural commodities from suppliers occupying ancestral indigenous territories in South America.
Live Sensor Logging Watch
Global Forest Watch satellite imagery flagged 358 hectares of unpermitted canopy clearing near Cargill contract supply boundary in Brazil.
Saudi Arabia consumer protection agency threatened to halt commercial shipments due to failure to produce verified deforestation-free certificates.
Added 450 hectares of verified, satellite-tracked canopy degradation to Cargill's profile index.
Civil society groups initiated on-the-ground investigations into slash-and-burn practices by certified palm oil and agricultural suppliers.