Publications
Nature Positive Farming – package to support smallholder producers achieve Deforestation and Conversion Free sourcing requirements.
Nature Positive Farming (NPF), developed by the HCV Network, provides a unique stepwise approach to build smallholder capacity and ownership to move towards DCF production. This is coupled with a package of self-reporting and remote verification tools to provide transparency and assurance to companies.
2 June 2023- English (254 kB)
Categories: Production Landscape Programmes Southeast Asia
Beyond Supply Chains: Pulp, Paper and Packaging Companies Take Landscape Action for Sustainability at Scale
This report explores why and how downstream and midstream companies are engaging at landscape scale to achieve sustainable land use in pulp, paper and packaging (PPP) production areas. Companies engage at this scale to meet their own sustainability commitments and improve relationships with local communities and stakeholders.
5 May 2023- English (4.88 MB)
Categories: Production landscapes Forest products
The Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative
Ten West and Central African countries commit to sustainable commodity production, with new Declaration signed at CoP27, November 9, 2022
3 April 2023Categories: APOI / Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative Africa Palm oil Forest products Rubber Cocoa Timber
Respecting Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Landscape Initiatives
This guidance is a resource for planners and implementers of landscape initiatives and suggests practical approaches to ensuring IPLC participation in, or ownership of, decisions in landscape initiatives at various key steps.
21 March 2023- English (1.28 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Production landscapes
Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability
The study aims to advance understanding of landscape and jurisdictional approaches as a key corporate strategy towards nature-positive businesses and to map the way forward to mobilise more private sector action and multi-stakeholder collaboration at scale.
1 February 2023- English (5.18 MB)
Categories: Production landscapes Cocoa
Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability: Progress and the Path Forward
This report explores why and how manufacturers, retailers, and traders are using landscape and jurisdictional approaches in cocoa production areas. The most prominent systemic issue companies seek to address using landscape...
30 January 2023- English (5.18 MB)
Categories: Production landscapes Cocoa
Guidance on Engagement Principles for the National Oil Palm Strategy and Action Plan of Liberia
Agriculture is the predominant source of livelihoods for over 70% of Liberia’s population. The government of Liberia has prioritised palm oil production as one of the most important industries for the future and there is interest from global companies who have committed to invest around USD 6 billion.
18 January 2023- English (871 kB)
Categories: Production Landscape Programmes Production landscapes Africa Palm oil
Engaging with Landscape Initiatives: A practical guide for supply chain companies in Indonesia
This guide collates our learning on where and how supply chain companies can most effectively engage with these landscape initiatives to help meet their commitments, recognising the different roles and participation of other stakeholders in the process.
16 January 2023- English (4.99 MB)
Categories: Production Landscape Programmes Production landscapes Southeast Asia
Creating Harmonious Industrial Relations Through Bipartite Cooperation Institutions (Bahasa Indonesia)
The document is a guidance for companies in Indonesia that aim to develop bipartite agreements.
9 January 2023- Bahasa Indonesia (3.50 MB)
Categories: Collaboration Southeast Asia Palm oil
EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products: Operational Guidance for Cocoa Producers and Importers
Proforest has developed an operational guidance for cocoa producers and importers to support the implementation of the upcoming EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR).
22 December 2022Category: Cocoa
EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products: Reference Document for Cocoa Producers and Importers
In this reference document, Proforest synthesises existing best practices and tools for conducting supply chain Deforestation Due Diligence in the cocoa sector and identifies key unanswered questions for regulators and companies.
22 December 2022Category: Cocoa
Gender and social inclusion strategy for the Asunafo-Asutifi Production Landscape
The objective is to promote gender and social inclusion actions in the identified Hotspot Intervention Areas (HIAs) in the Asunafo-Asutifi landscape in the Ahafo region of Ghana. This is to ensure a gender responsive forest landscape that gives equal voice, access, participation and influence for diverse women and men, mostly in the implementation of the ongoing Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFPR) and other future natural resources projects and programmes in the landscape.
21 December 2022- English (1.38 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues Production Landscape Programmes People Nature Production landscapes Africa