Publications
Exporters from Brazil and EUDR: beef and soy dry runs
As part of the program "Traceability, Monitoring and Transparency Systems in the Beef and Soy Chains in Brazil", Proforest developed the project "Brazilian Exporters and the EUDR: Dry Runs in Beef and Soy supply chains" with five...
25 March 2025- English (9.10 MB)
- Portuguese (9.05 MB)
Categories: Policy and regulation Latin America Cattle Soy
Proforest Initiative Africa 2024 Annual Report
This annual report highlights our progress and commitment to promoting the responsible sourcing and production of agricultural commodities in Africa. We are happy to share our contribution towards delivering positive social and...
14 January 2025- English (2.35 MB)
Categories: APOI / Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative Production Landscape Programmes People Production landscapes Africa Cocoa
Embedded soy: from understanding the challenges to taking action
This guidance highlights how companies can understand and assess their embedded soy, and engage with the challenges it poses.
25 November 2024- English (1.59 MB)
Category: Soy
Converged HREDD Assessment Tool and Guidance
Members of AIM-Progress and the Consumer Goods Forum Human Rights Coalition have developed this tool in collaboration with the Fair Labor Association and Proforest to reduce the proliferation of new assessments and the exacerbation of supplier assessment fatigue.
18 November 2024
Leveraging Carbon Instruments for Financial Sustainability in a Soy Landscape Initiative
Case study on leveraging carbon benefits from conservation, restoration, and regenerative agriculture to strengthen the business case for the Western Mato Grosso Sustainable Landscape Initiative in Brazil
7 November 2024- English (9.32 MB)
- Portuguese (9.26 MB)
Categories: Nature Climate Latin America
Core Criteria for Mature Landscape Initiatives
With increasing interest and engagement in landscape initiatives, it is critical that all stakeholders have a simple and consistent understanding of the core elements of a mature landscape initiative. Many of the leading landscape practitioner organisations have come together to agree on those core criteria and accompanying sub-criteria, which are presented here.
7 November 2024- English (3.66 MB)
Category: Production landscapes
RAPPORT: Journées de sensibilisation et de brainstorming sur le Règlement Déforestation de l’Union Européenne (RDUE) au Gabon
Les « Journées de sensibilisation et de brainstorming sur le Règlement Déforestation de l’Union Européenne (RDUE) au Gabon » se sont déroulées en ligne (webinaire) et en présentiel au WWF Gabon du 23 au 24 mai 2024. Elles ont été...
4 June 2024- French (779 kB)
Categories: APOI / Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative Policy and regulation Africa Cocoa Forest products Palm oil Rubber Timber
Social Safeguarding Process for Landscape and Jurisdictional Initiatives (LJIs)
This guidance is a resource for planners and implementers of landscape initiatives and suggests practical approaches to ensuring globally applicable minimum safeguarding process: laying out the key steps that all initiatives...
28 May 2024- English (508 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Production landscapes
Landscape-level measurement for biodiversity and nature
Practical steps for advancing a common foundational approach
15 May 2024- English (10.66 MB)
Categories: Nature Production landscapes
Landscape-level measurement for biodiversity and nature
Global regulatory and reporting context for the private sector
15 May 2024- English (5.33 MB)
Categories: Nature Production landscapes
Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative: A platform for producer and consumer country partnerships
ASCI has great potential to help bridge perspectives between consumer and producer countries. This briefing paper extracts insights and lessons from ASCI multistakeholder dialogues, as well as a study on Producer-Consumer...
21 March 2024- English (314 kB)
Categories: APOI / Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative People Nature Africa
Transamazonica Connections - Building common goals for the livestock sector in Novo Repartimento (PA), Brazil
The Transamazonica Connections initiative, supported by Neste, is a partnership created in March 2023 between the Fundação Solidaridad, Imaflora and Proforest.
19 March 2024- English (5.46 MB)
Categories: People Nature Climate Production landscapes Latin America Cattle
