Using its MAC tool, McKinsey advocated the reduction of deforestation to be achieved through stopping what is known as “slash and burn” agriculture by indigenous communities, because this tradition was deemed to create low financial value, and so the communities would require less compensation for the loss of habitats and ways of life.[71] Large timber companies, in contrast, would require higher compensation because the costs of not cutting down forests for them were deemed high. The latter was of course a far greater contributor to deforestation.
