Campaign group Earthsight has published a report in which it accuses large cotton producers of illegal deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region, of land-grabbing and of violence against communities there.

London-based Earthsight said it had worked on the report for a year analysing satellite images, court rulings, shipment records and other documents. From this, it has alleged that cotton grown in the western portion of the Brazilian state of Bahia by two of the country’s largest producers, SLC Agrícola and Grupo Horita, “is linked to a number of illegalities”. 

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