Also important was the voluntary agreement from soy traders to embargo products from recently deforested land and the 2009 agreement between the three largest Amazon meat-packers and Greenpeace, which sought to ban purchases from suppliers who deforested. Compliance from suppliers hit 93 percent in 2013. Sixty-five of 95 slaughterhouses signed zero-deforestation commitments. All the while, production of cattle and soy increased.
