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Cargill is a privately owned company. The descendants of the founder (from the Cargill and MacMillan families) own over 85% of the company.

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About Cargill

Cargill is a multinational company which provides food, agriculture, financial and industrial products. It has 145,000 employees and operates in 67 countries. It was founded in 1865.

Cargill has more than 60 subsidiaries. A list can be found here.

Impacts

Social and human rights impacts

In 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed suit against Cargill, Nestlé, and Archer Daniels Midland in federal court on behalf of children who were trafficked from Mali into Côte d'Ivoire and forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day with no pay, little food and sleep, and frequent physical abuse, on cocoa bean plantations.

Cargill is a major buyer of cotton in Uzbekistan, despite the industry prevalence of uncompensated workers and possible human rights abuses, and admissions made by two representatives that the company is aware of the possible use of child labor in the production of its crops. Their concerns have been public since 2005, but no action has been taken regarding labor violations existent in their Uzbek operations.

Environmental and climate impacts

In 2003, Cargill completed a port for processing soya in Santarém in the Amazon region of Brazil, dramatically increasing soya production in the area and, according to Greenpeace, speeding up deforestation of local rain forest. February 2006, the federal courts in Brazil gave Cargill six months to complete an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Initially supported by job-seeking locals, public opinion turned against the port as jobs have not appeared. Greenpeace took its campaign to major food retailers and quickly won agreement from McDonald's along with UK-retailers Asda, Waitrose, and Marks & Spencer to stop buying meat raised on Amazonian soya. These retailers have, in turn, put pressure on Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, André Maggi Group, and Dreyfus to prove their soya was not grown on recently deforested land in the Amazon. In July 2006, Cargill joined other soy businesses in Brazil in a two-year moratorium on the purchase of soybeans from newly deforested land.

Other impacts

In July 2014 Cargill  announced a “No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation” palm oil policy for its own operations and its third-party suppliers. It has promised to announce a specific implementation plan, and it has partnered with TFT to provide traceability to its customers. This policy was a major step forward for Cargill, and was praised by outside experts and NGOs. However, the policy does contain some gaps: it does not address the use of hazardous pesticides, such as those banned by the Rotterdam Convention, and it does not make any commitments to address mill effluent, a globally significant source of methane pollution. Most important, the policy currently only applies to palm oil, leaving out Cargill’s significant global commodity operations in cattle, soy, and sugar, among others. Nonetheless, the policy marks a major step forward for Cargill as a responsible palm oil provider.

On September 23 2014, Cargill announced that it was extending it's deforestation-free policy across all commodities.

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Soybean giant breaks pledge on Amazon deforestation

2022-01-14 | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
blog
external news
our news

British supermarket cheese linked to catastrophic deforestation in Brazil

2021-10-13 | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
blog
external news
our news

UOB's new sectoral policies need stronger requirements for forest-risk commodities companies

2021-09-27 | BankTrack, Forest & Finance Coalition
blog
external news
our news

Swedish banks contribute to Amazon deforestation

2021-09-21 | Fair Finance Guide Sweden
blog
external news
our news

The Chain: Less Rainfall Caused by Amazon Deforestation Could Lead to Almost $200B in Losses for Beef and Soy Sectors

2021-06-10 | Chain Reaction Research
blog
external news
our news

Under the spotlight: Chinese banks' risky agribusiness portfolio

New Global Witness analysis shows Chinese banks are pouring billions into destructive agribusiness linked to global deforestation, highlighting huge gaps in environmental and social risk management
2021-06-07 | Global Witness
blog
external news
our news

Global food giants sourced soya linked to illegal Amazon deforestation

2021-06-01 | Greenpeace, Greenpeace Unearthed
blog
external news
our news

Are banks partly responsible for child labour and deforestation in chocolate production?

The role of Belgian banks in the cocoa sector
2021-04-03 | FairFin
blog
external news
our news

EXCLUSIVO – Movimentos sociais de Abaetetuba denunciam fraude fundiária da Cargill. Empresa, rebate

2021-03-22 | Ver o fato
blog
external news
our news

Big banks make a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand for food

While banks and asset managers are promising to divest from fossil fuels, they are expanding investments in high-carbon foods and commodities tied to deforestation.
2021-03-07 | Inside Climate News
blog
external news
our news

Scandinavian fund excludes Cargill, Bunge and ADM for deforestation in Brazil

2021-02-15 | AW journal
blog
external news
our news

BNP Paribas gives soy-related deforestation a five-year free pass

2021-02-15 | Canopée Forêts Vivantes, Mighty Earth, Reclaim Finance, SumOfUs
blog
external news
our news

The Chain: Traders See Increased Pressure to Agree to 2020 Cut-Off Date in Cerrado

2021-01-19 | Chain Reaction Research
blog
external news
our news

Big food companies urge soy traders to help save Brazil savanna

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Companies including Tesco, Walmart, Unilever and McDonald’s on Tuesday said they had urged major commodities traders to stop dealing in soy linked to deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado, a vast savanna region and vital carbon storehouse.
2020-12-21 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

GREEN CATS 2020 UPDATE: SCORING PALM OIL AND SOY COMPANIES ON FOREST POLICIES AND TRANSPARENCY

2020-12-21 | Forest Heroes
blog
external news
our news

Recent Cerrado Deforestation, Wildfires Linked to UK Chicken Consumption

2020-12-01 | Chain Reaction Research
blog
external news
our news

‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report

2020-10-28 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

American financiers invested more than USD 18 billion in companies linked to Indigenous Rights violations in the Brazilian Amazon

2020-10-27 | Brasília, Brazil and Oakland, USA | Amazon Watch, Association of Brazil’s Indigenous Peoples (APIB)
blog
external news
our news

Cargill: The Worst Company In the World

2020-10-02 | Mighty Earth
blog
external news
our news

Chocolate com trabalho escravo: as violações trabalhistas na indústria do cacau no Brasil

2020-08-30 | Reporter Brasil
blog
external news
our news

Butchering the Planet: the big-name financiers bankrolling livestock corporations and climate change

New Feedback's report draws attention to the environmental impacts of the livestock industry
2020-07-13 | Feedback Global
blog
external news
our news

JJF Holding land-grabbing case intensifies soy traders’ exposure to Cerrado deforestation

2019-11-04 | Chain Reaction Research
blog
external news
our news

Money to burn

More than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn
2019-09-23 | Global Witness
blog
external news
our news

Cargill: The Worst Company In the World

2019-09-05 | Mighty Earth
blog
external news
our news

Mystery Meat

2019-09-05 | Mighty Earth
blog
external news
our news

Global NGOs: Dirty Dozen Companies Driving Deforestation Must Act Now to Stop the Burning of the World's Forests

Groups call for the immediate suspension of all business and financing with traders active in the Brazilian Amazon "The Amazon is on fire. Corporations share the blame. They need to become part of the solution."
2019-08-30 | Amazon Watch
blog
external news
our news

The Companies Behind the Burning of the Amazon

2019-08-29 | Mighty Earth
blog
external news
our news

Complicity in Destruction II

How northern consumers and financiers enable Bolsonaro's assault on the Brazilian Amazon
2019-04-25 | Amazon Watch
blog
external news
our news

Saving the Cerrado: Six commodities traders to disclose supply chain data

2019-03-07 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Traders, farmers fined over links to deforestation in Cerrado

2018-05-24 | Feed Navigator
blog
external news
our news

Cargill suspends new purchase agreements with Malaysian palm oil giant IOI

2016-07-18 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

New poll: Australians draw the line at badly behaving banks

Oxfam Australia release "Still Banking on Land Grabs"
2016-02-15 | Melbourne | Oxfam Australia
blog
external news
our news
private

Nestlé, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland lawsuit (re Côte d'Ivoire)

2016-01-10 | Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
blog
external news
our news

Three food companies with a climate footprint bigger than the Netherlands

2015-12-07 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

Palm oil giants to investigate company found razing Papuan rainforest

2015-06-22 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

How Companies Are Striving for Deforestation-Free Supply Chains

2015-05-25 | The Huffington Post
blog
external news
our news

Walking the talk on zero deforestation

2015-05-15 | Eco-business.com
blog
external news
our news

Palm giants ask Indonesian gov't to clear path toward sustainability

2015-05-01 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Cargill takes steps to meet growing demand for sustainable palm oil

2015-01-08 | Farmlandgrab
blog
external news
our news

Cargill may invest $1b in Indonesia over 3 to 4 years with palm oil and poultry focus

2014-12-09 | Farm lanf grab
blog
external news
our news

'No forests, no cash': palm oil giants commit to sustainability, but will they follow through?

2014-10-21 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Forests need laws, not loopholes

2014-09-25 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

The Soya Moratorium is protecting the Amazon. Does Cargill still support it?

2014-09-24 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

Cargill becomes TFT member

2014-09-15 | TFT
blog
external news
our news

Cargill's palm oil commitment

2014-07-30 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news
private

Don't be fooled by 'zero deforestation' promises

2014-05-19 | The Ecologist
blog
external news
our news

Cargill: Inside the quiet giant that rules the food business

2011-10-27 | Fortune Magazine
blog
external news
our news

Uzbekistan cotton – A thread of hope in the retail fabric

2007-10-04 | Ethical Corp
blog
external news
our news

Cargill's controversial soya port closed in the Amazon

2007-03-27 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

McVictory Victory as fast food giant pledges to help protect the Amazon

2006-07-25 | Greenpeace
blog
external news
our news

ADM, Nestle & Cargill Sued for Sourcing Cocoa Beans for Chocolate from Slave Labor Plantations in Africa

2005-07-19 | Organic Consumers

Documents

Type:
Year:
ngo documents
2021-05-03 00:00:00

Key Cerrado Deforesters in 2020 Linked to the Clearing of More Than 110,000 Hectares

2021-05-03 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
ngo documents
2020-10-27 00:00:00

Complicity in Destruction III

2020-10-27 00:00:00 | APIB and Amazon Watch
ngo documents
2021-03-22 00:00:00

Public letter of information on land irregularities practiced by the company Cargill Agricola S.A. and the encroachment of traditionally occupied land in the municipality of Abaetetuba, State of Pará

2021-03-22 00:00:00 | Comissão Pastoral da Terra and others
ngo documents
2021-03-19 00:00:00

Countdown to Extinction

What will it take to get companies to act?
2021-03-19 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
ngo documents
2021-03-18 00:00:00

Shining a Spotlight

A critical assessment of food and beverage companies’ delivery of sustainability commitments
2021-03-18 00:00:00 | Oxfam
ngo documents
2020-12-21 00:00:00

Domestic Banks Finance 74% of Brazilian Beef & Soy

2020-12-21 00:00:00 | Chain Reaction Research
ngo documents
2020-12-18 00:00:00

The Ultimate Mystery Meat - Exposing the Secrets Behind Burger King and Global Meat Production

2020-12-18 00:00:00 | Mighty Earth
ngo documents
2020-11-27 00:00:00

Complicity in Destruction III

2020-11-27 00:00:00 | Amazon Watch
correspondence
2020-11-22 00:00:00

Letter from Forests & Finance to JPMorgan Chase on JPMorgan Chase' forest-risk financing

2020-11-22 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance
correspondence
2020-11-22 00:00:00

Letter from Forests & Finance to BNP Paribas on BNP Paribas' forest-risk financing

2020-11-22 00:00:00 | Forests & Finance
ngo documents
2019-09-30 00:00:00

Deutsche Banken spielen mit dem Feuer

2019-09-30 00:00:00 | Facing Finance
ngo documents
2019-04-25 00:00:00

Complicity in destruction II

2019-04-25 00:00:00 | Amazon Watch
ngo documents
2018-04-30 00:00:00

The avoidable crisis

The European Meat Industry's Environmental Catastrophy
2018-04-30 00:00:00 | Mighty Earth, Regnskogfondet, Fern
ngo documents
2017-09-30 00:00:00

Chocolate's dark secret

2017-09-30 00:00:00 | Mighty Earth
annual reports
2016-03-01 00:00:00

Cargill annual report 2015

2016-03-01 00:00:00 | Cargill
ngo documents
2014-10-01 00:00:00

Dirty Profits III

Reporting on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights 
2014-10-01 00:00:00 | Facing Finance
csr policies
2014-07-31 00:00:00

Cargill Policy on Sustainable Palm Oil

2014-07-31 00:00:00 | Cargill
ngo documents
2014-02-01 00:00:00

P&G's Dirty Secret

Media briefing on Greenpeace International’s investigation of how P&G’s palm oil suppliers are pushing Sumatran tigers and orang-utans closer to extinction
2014-02-01 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
ngo documents
2014-02-01 00:00:00

Procte & Gamble's Dirty Secret

2014-02-01 00:00:00 | Greenpeace
annual reports
2014-01-01 00:00:00

CSR Report 2013

2014-01-01 00:00:00 | Cargill Indonesia
ngo documents
2013-02-01 00:00:00

SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION

2013-02-01 00:00:00 | The Rainforest Foundation

Links

Cargill on Sustainable Palm Oil

http://www.cargill.com/corporate-responsibility/pov/palm-oil/index.jsp

The companies behind the burning of the Amazon

By Mighty Earth

https://stories.mightyearth.org/amazonfires/index.html

Traders, farmers fined over links to deforestation in Cerrado

https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2018/05/24/Traders-farmers-fined-over-links-to-deforestation-in-Cerrado
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