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Guidance for Deforestation-Free Supply Chains
2025 marks a major milestone for companies working to eliminate deforestation and conversion from agricultural commodity supply chains. While there has been real progress, challenges in delivering on DCF commitments and addressing complex supply chains remain.
18 August 2025 NewsMonitoring Protocol defines environmental commitments for livestock farming in the Cerrado
Common socio-environmental responsibility criteria will be an ally against growing deforestation in this vital Brazilian biome.
24 April 2024 NewsTransamazonica Connections landscape initiative completes Phase I
The project succeeded in completing its objectives, achieving unprecedented engagement and mobilisation of multiple livestock stakeholders in Novo Repartimento, Pará, Brazil, leading to stakeholders owning and managing the Sustainable Livestock Forum.
8 April 2024 NewsMultistakeholder engagement on sustainable transition of soy and cattle sectors
Proforest, TFA and the Consumer Goods Forum Forest Positive Coalition of Action (CGF FPC) are in Brazil this week for a number of key meetings and activities focused on the sustainable transition of the soy and cattle sectors.
6 November 2023 NewsAlliance to Reduce Deforestation and Promote Low Carbon Livestock Farming in the Transamazonic Region of Pará State
The result of a partnership between Solidaridad, Imaflora and Proforest, the Transamazonica Connections programme promotes multisectoral coordination in the region.
17 October 2023 NewsThe Cerrado Protocol Advances to a New Phase
The ”Voluntary Monitoring Protocol for Cattle Suppliers in the Cerrado” is approaching the end of the evaluation phase of the socio-environmental criteria and analysis rules. Read the trial version of the Protocol at www.cerradoprotocol.net.
3 October 2022 NewsThe New Voluntary Monitoring Protocol for Cattle Suppliers in the Cerrado
Tackling social and environmental issues associated with cattle production in the Brazilian Cerrado.
1 October 2021 NewsOnline event: Voluntary Monitoring Protocol for Cattle Suppliers in the Cerrado – Key results from the consultation
Companies sourcing cattle products from the Brazilian Cerrado have started to develop responsible sourcing strategies to avoid purchases linked with social and environmental issues in the Cerrado biome. The world’s most biodiverse...
28 September 2021 NewsTyson Foods Partners with Proforest to Conduct Global Deforestation Risk Assessment
Findings from the risk assessment will inform the development of a Tyson Foods Forest Protection Policy in 2020
29 October 2019 NewsAddressing soy and beef driven deforestation in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay
Proforest supported the first phase of the Collaboration for Forests and Agriculture to address commodity-driven deforestation in the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco biomes.
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