A report revealing how soy monoculture is advancing in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay entitled ‘Soybean Production in the Southern Cone of the Americas: Update on Land Use and Pesticides’ has been released by the Norwegian Centre for Biosafety. The report addresses “soyization” as a regional problem, illustrating how deforestation, land consolidation, and evictions have increased now that, between these five countries, 44% of cultivated land has only the soy crop grown on it. This huge growth in production has involved the takeover and clearing of new territories, significantly increasing the use of pesticides, and seeing all five countries putting vast swaths of their territory at the disposal of Europe and Asia's needs. The report signals that the process of land consolidation amongst a few landowners has become more pronounced and confirms what peasant organizations and many researchers have warned for a decade, that soy production and land consolidation go hand in hand. An ever smaller number of producers manage bigger and bigger areas, reaching management units of 2,500 to 5,000 hectares in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. In Paraguay, in 2005, 4% of soy producers controlled 60% of the total of all areas with this crop and in Brazil, in 2006, 5% of soy producers controlled 59% of all area dedicated to this crop. The report also highlights the widespread adoption of trangsenic soy and the implementation of direct seeding as the principle causes of the exponential increase in the use of agrochemicals, in particular glyphosate. Another factor explaining this increase is the appearance of weeds resistant to common herbicides, which provokes an increase in the use of other, complementary pesticides, themselves often more toxic, including 24D and paraquat.