Publications
Finance for Landscapes: Insights from Impact Investors
This Insight Paper is a result of collaboration between Proforest, WWF, and UNEP, supported by the Climate Solutions Partnership. The Climate Solutions Partnership is a five-year (2020-2025) philanthropic programme between HSBC, WRI, and WWF to scale climate solutions for a global impact.
24 June 2025- English (814 kB)
Categories: Production Landscape Programmes People Nature Climate Production landscapes
A Blueprint for Resilient Landscape Initiatives
This briefing note outlines an approach for building mature landscape initiatives
19 June 2025- English (4.04 MB)
Categories: Production Landscape Programmes People Nature Climate Production landscapes
Setting up and strengthening gender committees in the palm oil sector
Gender committees are established to oversee organisational initiatives promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace. However, in Indonesia, they are often misperceived as women-only organisations focused on...
14 April 2025- English (6.52 MB)
Categories: People Production landscapes Southeast Asia Palm oil
The potential role of labor unions in advocating for casual daily workers’ rights
In palm oil plantations, 50-70% of workers are typically casual workers who face significant vulnerabilities due to their lack of contractual status. As they are not formally employed, they cannot join trade unions, leaving them...
4 April 2025- English (10.53 MB)
Categories: People Production landscapes Southeast Asia Palm oil
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
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
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
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
Implementation of a Regional Landscape Approach and Sustainable Management Plan: the case of the San Pedro Landscape
Drawing up a sustainable management and investment plan for the landscape is a complex and crucial undertaking to ensure the preservation of the environment and the socio-economic development of a given region. Drawing on the...
14 March 2024- English (1.04 MB)
Categories: Production Landscape Programmes People Nature Climate Production landscapes Africa
Companies Collaborating for Sustainable Soy Landscapes: Progress and Transition Pathways
How and why midstream and downstream companies have taken landscape-scale action in soy production areas
1 February 2024- English (2.82 MB)
Categories: People Nature Climate Production landscapes Latin America Soy
