Promoting an environmentally responsible and economically viable value chain
ViSeC, short for Visión Sectorial del Gran Chaco Argentino, is a space intended to bring together the different actors involved in the soybean value chain to promote the reduction of negative environmental impacts, with a focus on deforestation of native forests and other forms of land-use change.
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Our vision
Ser la plataforma sectorial referente que fomenta acciones colectivas para que la soja argentina sea reconocida local y mundialmente como un producto sostenible, fruto de una cadena de valor competitiva, social y ambientalmente responsable, transparente y económicamente viable.
Our mission
Drive and promote science-based sectoral actions that promote sustainable soy production in Argentina, focusing on monitoring and controlling land-use changes in the Gran Chaco Region.
ViSeC, short for Visión Sectorial del Gran Chaco Argentino, is a space intended to bring together the different actors involved in the soybean value chain to promote the reduction of negative environmental impacts, with a focus on deforestation of native forests and other forms of land-use change.
Get to know usOur mission
Drive and promote science-based sectoral actions that promote sustainable soy production in Argentina, focusing on monitoring and controlling land-use changes in the Gran Chaco Region.
Our vision
We wish to be the sectoral platform that promotes collective actions to recognize Argentine soybeans as a sustainable product worldwide, resulting from a competitive, socially, and environmentally responsible, transparent, and economically viable value chain.
ViSeC is a National Platform that brings together all members of the soybean value chain to reduce environmental impacts
Focusing on deforestation and other land use changes
Strengthening governance and collective actions in Argentina
Promoting an environmentally responsible and economically viable value chain
¿Por qué el
Gran Chaco?
Why the Gran Chaco Region?
- It is an ecoregion that is distributed over a million square kilometers amongst Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil
- 62% of this region is located on Argentine territory
- The area is one of the last great strongholds of biodiversity left in the world
- It is home to the second largest forest in Latin America after the Amazon
- It is an ancient territory where more than 600 indigenous communities from over 20 different ethnic groups coexist
- Thousands of peasant families related to small producers inhabit the region developing various productive activities
Members
Members
What do we wish to achieve?
- Work in a pre-competitive way to address a complex problem that no company can solve individually
- Take advantage of business opportunities: use information, tools, and common agreements to respond to current market and consumer demands
- Incorporate the environmental and social impact variables of the chain into business decisions (sustainability criteria)
- Improve the communication and dissemination of the sector´s activities according to the raised environmental challenges
The world is
talking about us!
«This is an initiative that, since 2019, when the first joint work between various actors in the soybean chain began, seeks to anticipate the international demands already established by the EU, and which will be followed by other economic blocks on the planet and which It is already beginning to get underway, given that Argentina will be evaluated…”
“Argentine soybeans seek to be recognized as a sustainable product, promoted by an environmental, responsible and economically viable value chain. This arises from the demands of countries in the European Union and the United States that constantly demand information about the food they consume. Meat also aims to join…”
«It is not required by law, but by the actors in the chain. A certification system for soy or beef "free of deforestation" will be required to export from January 2025. At the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, the virtual platform was presented in which producers, collectors and exporters - now joined by refrigerators - will have to upload the data in 2024. …»
“La buena noticia es que Argentina ya está orientada en esta dirección. En este sentido, desde 2019 nuestro país integra la plataforma de Visión Sectorial del Gran Chaco (ViSeC), que reúne a todos los actores de la cadena de nuestro producto estrella, la soja, a los fines de construir colectivamente los procesos de monitoreo, reporte y verificación necesarios para brindar..."
“Esta decisión también se va a replicar en otras medidas, por ejemplo, que ningún exportador argentino va a comprar soja que no esté en cumplimiento previo de las condiciones de ViSeC, que toda la información sea transparente y que cualquier comprador de los 78 que le compra harina y soja a la Argentina, pueda obtener toda la información desde la web, que sirva como garantía...”
“...ViSeC hizo foco en la importancia de los cuidados del suelo y ambientes degradados, a partir del trabajo del manejo de los espacios de conservación, que vayan conforme a mejorar la biodiversidad en los espacios productivos. Además, el presidente de Ciara-Cec advirtió sobre la adopción de una tecnología que, de no adherirse, podría dejar fuera tanto a productores...”
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