Five years ago Blairo Maggi would have been the jungle's least likely savior. Since then he has had a conversion.rnBlairo maggi was once an eco-villain. While governor of the Amazonian state Mato Grosso, he cut down vast tracts of primeval jungle to make soybeans into Brazil's biggest cash crop-and to drive profits for his own family farms.rnIn 2003, Maggi's first year as governor, loggers cleared 4,560 square miles of Mato Grosso forest, an area twice the size of Delaware. And where Brazil's forests suffered, Maggi profited: His family's company, the Andre Maggi Group, produces 5% of Brazil's soybeans and, with annual sales reaching $2 billion in 2008, is the world's largest soy producer.
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