About 15% of Brazil's public rural credit from 2019 to 2025 — R$92.4 billion (roughly US$18 billion) — went to properties carrying deforestation or degradation alerts, a MapBiomas study finds.
Brazil · Agribusiness
Key Facts
—The finding. About 15% of Brazil’s public rural credit from 2019 to 2025 went to properties carrying deforestation or degradation alerts.
—The sum. That is R$92.4 billion (roughly US$18 billion) across some 831,000 financing operations.
—The total. Public rural credit in the period reached R$613.18 billion (about US$120 billion).
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