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Paraguay Beef Supply Chains Dataset

Name of the biome where the production municipality is located

Name of the country where the commodity was produced

Description of the type of product classified according to the HS Code

The Forest 500 commodity score of the exporting company. The Forest 500 score ranks companies according to the strength of their sustainability commitments between 0 and 5

Zero-deforestation commitments (ZDC) are obtained by Global Canopy’s annual assessment which determines whether the exporting company (exporter_group column) has a commitment to zero deforestation in their supply chain (net or gross deforestation are both acceptable). For more details plase refer to the full methodology document

Name of the department where the commodity was produced

Name of the district from where the commodity was exported

Company, including subsidiaries, responsible for exporting the commodity

Corporate group responsible for exporting the commodity (groups the exporter column into parent companies where applicable)

Country of product destination as recorded in trade data

Aggregation of destination countries according to relevant economic blocs, including for example the European Union. Not all economic blocs existing in the world are represented in the data: where there is no specific economic bloc the name of the destination country is used instead.

Volume of the traded commodity. The total value is the raw equivalent of the traded sub-products (for example, soy cake and soy oil are converted to soybean equivalent tonnes).

Value of the traded product at point of export in US dollars based on customs and trade data in FOB (Freight on Board).

Cattle deforestation exposure is obtained by calculating five years of pasture deforestation divided by five years of beef production per jurisdiction. The results are subsequently multiplied by the trade volumes to allocate the area of exposure for each actor (traders or countries) in the supply chain

Gross emissions attributable to cattle deforestation exposure. Emission estimates are based on the complete release of carbon stored in native vegetation. Carbon stocks were transformed to CO₂-eq. using 3.67 as conversion factor.

Area of land being used as pasture. Based on exported volumes and yield values per jurisdiction.

Unique ID for each department where the product was produced, formatted as 'PY-' followed by the geocode

Country where the product was produced, described using the official ISO 2 code

Country of product destination, described using the official ISO 2 code

Paraguay beef supply chain data

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