Publications
Navigating Human Rights Compliance in Brazil’s Agricultural Sector
The Platform AgroBrasil+ Sustentável (AB+S) is seen as a promising solution for increasing transparency and credibility in the monitoring of agricultural supply chains. This policy brief assesses its potential contributions to...
12 February 2026Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Responsible production Latin America
Integrating Human Rights into Climate Action
As companies accelerate their climate ambitions, the link between environmental action and human rights has never been more important. Building long-term business resilience depends on strategies that protect people while driving...
24 November 2025Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Climate
Respecting and Engaging Human Rights Defenders: Practical actions for agribusiness
Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) are essential actors in identifying and raising concerns about human rights abuses, and they can be valuable partners for companies committed to reducing risks in their operations and supply chains....
20 November 2025- English (785 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues Responsible sourcing
Humanising net zero targets: how to bring people and their rights into corporate climate action
Developed for AIM-Progress by Proforest, this document aims to bridge this gap by providing comprehensive guidance on how companies can bring together and align their climate and human rights priorities within their responsible...
22 May 2025- English (137 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Climate Responsible sourcing
Human rights due diligence: a systematic approach to respecting human rights
This briefing note outlines the importance of meaningful Human Rights Due Diligence for companies in the agricultural and forestry sectors, supporting them to set up and implement robust processes based on best practice and case studies.
26 November 2024- English (319 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People
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
Remedying human rights grievances in the supply chain
Guidance on grievance management for buyers of agricultural commodities
17 November 2023- English (6.34 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Responsible sourcing Responsible production
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
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
Gender and Social inclusion in Production Landscapes
A case study of the Asunafo-Asutifi Landscape in the Ahafo Region of Ghana
21 November 2022- English (2.02 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Production landscapes Africa
Guidance Paper on Social Dialogue, Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining in the palm oil sector in Indonesia
This document is developed to provide guidance to palm oil supply chain actors; producers (plantation and mills), refineries, traders, manufacturers and international consumer goods companies connected to the palm oil sector in Indonesia.
30 August 2022- English (2.27 MB)
- Bahasa Indonesia (2.18 MB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Responsible production Southeast Asia Palm oil
Human Rights Policy Commitments Guide
Guidance on the process, structure and content of the commitments that can be used to develop a company's Human Rights Commitments Policy.
31 July 2022- English (895 kB)
Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People
