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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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 us
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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.

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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.

¿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

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