Commercial pact entered into in July 2006 between Abiove and the Association of Cereal Exporters (Anec) and the government and civil society.

This is a commitment to not trade or fund soybean produced in areas that have been deforested in the Amazon biome after July 22, 2008, which is the baseline date of the Brazilian Forestry Code.

The monitoring of the Moratorium uses a variety of satellite images obtained during each crop season to detect soybean crops in these deforested areas. The analysis is complemented by the database of deforested areas in the biome, published by the Project for Monitoring Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PRODES), which is coordinated by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), as well as other sources of information.

Between 2002 and 2008, the municipalities with soybean production in the Amazon deforested 10,600 km²/year on average. Once the Moratorium was implemented, this number dropped to around 3,000 km²/year, 3.6 times lower.

Therefore, there is a consensus that, in all these years, the pact has contributed to reducing deforestation associated with soybean, given that, after 2008, only 3% of the soybean planted in the Amazon has been located in deforested areas, and no grains from these areas have been sold.