Past events & webinars
2025
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Jane Lino at the World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting
Proforest joined discussions on boosting productivity, aligning data and finance, and expanding sustainable cocoa in Brazil. A key message was that biodiversity and agroforestry offer strong business cases for resilient cocoa production, supported by robust data, local adaptation, and targeted incentives for producers
Abraham Baffoe as a Schwab Foundation Collective Social Innovator
Abraham Baffoe is the technical lead of the Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative (ASCI), a multi-stakeholder partnership of ten countries in Central and West Africa, which account for 25% of the world’s tropical forest and 75% of Africa’s forests, inclusive of governments, companies, local communities and NGOs.
Connecting Action in 2024
"Connecting Action" is the theme of our 2024 highlights video, showcasing the depth and breadth of our global work. From fostering existing partnerships and building new ones, bridging policy to practice, implementing practical solutions for on-the-ground realities and continuous capacity building and innovation across all of our work.
Chain of custody: building a common understanding, enabling corporate action
Exploring the updated ISEAL CoC Definitions and Models Guidance, which is currently open for public consultation (until 11 January 2025). Updates address emerging CoC models, regulatory shifts like the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), and innovations such as blockchain and satellite monitoring.
Converged Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Assessment Tool Launch
We heard from a company that piloted the tool, sharing insights on its practical application, and from other companies involved in its creation, highlighting how it integrates into their broader HREDD strategies. This collaborative effort underscores the tool’s potential to support companies in aligning their operations with human rights and environmental due diligence principles.
Challenges & opportunities in palm oil
Proforest's Taufiq Alimi spoke to Barnaby Patchett of The Sustainable Commodities Podcast on how collaboration and continued innovation can help address the challenges and opportunities of the palm oil industry.
Cerrado Protocol Launch Webinar
Webinar presenting the Cerrado Protocol, a monitoring guide for responsible cattle purchases and an important tool for transformation towards more sustainable livestock farming. To watch it with the original audio in Portuguese click here.
Corporate financing mechanisms for land-based investments
Proforest's David D'Hollander discussed the potential for landscape programmes to scale interventions for carbon reduction and removals on-farm, and to initiate long term emission reduction measures off-farm on the WBCSD webinar 'Financing models for land-based investments'.
How business can benefit from engaging in landscape approaches
Proforest's Rachel Wall and Patrick Mallet from ISEAL Alliance, talk about how companies can put into practice landscape approaches to environmental and social challenges. They discuss why investing in landscape initiatives is important and how companies can benefit from it.
Proforest's Year in Review 2023
Each year the urgency to accelerate and scale collaborative action increases. So in 2023, we continued our work engaging with actors on the ground, incentivising collaborative landscape action, preparing for upcoming regulations, guiding on human rights and social issues, and building capacity and sharing knowledge.
The big picture: evolving private sector landscape-level action
23 November 2023
Proforest's Veronique Bovee, Deputy Director for Responsible Soucing, and Rodrigue Kreilmann, Corporate Sustainability Governance Manager at Mars, talk with Ian Welsh about how companies can help accelerate progress towards nature, people and climate goals on a landscape level. They discussed the importance of corporate leadership to drive this and peer collaboration.
Green Supply Chain Best Practices and Promotion Mechanism
27 October 2023
Proforest’s Tor Mooi See shared her views on the best practices of the palm oil industry at the Dialogue on Developing Countries' Efforts to Promote Supply Chain Resilience.
The webinar, organised by the Foreign Environmental Cooperation Centre (FECO) of the Chinese Ministry of Environment and Ecology (MEE) and World Resources Institute (WRI) China focused on providing updates on green supply chain policies, investment, and practices in strengthening the international collaboration on green value chains as part of the development of the green “Belt and Road” initiative lead by China.
MY Voice: Reintroducing the Just Good Work App
18 October 2023
The MY Voice team organised a webinar to share latest updates and real-life usage examples of the Just Good Work (JGW) app. The JGW app is a free mobile app that helps to engage with and inform workers about their rights, and an important tool for businesses to implement responsible recruitment practices.
The MY Voice project is led by SAI and partners such as Proforest, The Centre for Child Rights & Business, and Our Journey.
Podcast Interview: Exploring Pathways to Achieve Sustainability Goals in the Palm Oil Sector
16 August 2023
In conversation with IDH at the 2023 Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue (SPOD), Veronique Bovee looks at how the palm oil sector needs to come together to address the impact of EUDR on smallholders and what Proforest is doing to support this.
Tackling Conversion of Natural Ecosystems through Collective Action
29 June 2023
Proforest's Hélène Mbaididje, Senior Project Manager- Conservation & Land Use, speaking at the Land & Carbon Lab 2023 in Brussels, on examples and lessons learned from collective action in production landscapes, with a focus on the use of data and monitoring tools. Watch it here.
AFi Webinar: Protecting forests, ecosystems, and human rights in a shifting landscape
25 May 2023
This webinar was moderated by Proforest's Group and Europe Director, Ruth Nussbaum, featuring presenters from the AFi and insights from McDonald’s. It explores how companies in the agriculture and forestry sectors can use the Accountability Framework to take action across seven essential areas as they establish and improve their policies and practices.
Colaboração para uma pecuária sustentável
19 April 2023
Representando a Proforest, Isabella Freire, Co-Diretora da Proforest América Latina, em parceria com a GTPS, participou do programa Planeta Campo do Canal Rural Produções para destacar a importância da colaboração na cadeia produtiva da pecuária sustentável. Para alcançar uma pecuária mais sustentável, é fundamental que todos os setores e elos da cadeia produtiva trabalhem em conjunto.
Breaking the chains - EU Regulation on deforestation-free commodities
26 January 2023
To explore the new EU Regulation on deforestation-free supply chains (EUDR) and the concerns surrounding deforestation a panel event was held at Europe House. One of the panellists was Proforest's Mike Senior, Deputy Director - Conservation and Land Use, who expanded on the challenges inherent in protecting forests and safeguarding biodiversity.
Proforest Review of 2022
21 December 2022
Looking back into the year 2022, reconnecting through our work in Responsible Sourcing and Production, in Production Landscapes around the world, from the field to conferences, and through Collaboration.
Thank you to everyone who made this possible, best wishes for the new year!
Applying HCV Approach at Landscape Scale: From Screening to Protection
15 December 2022
This Jurisdictional Action Network webinar organised in collaboration with the HCV Network showcased examples of the HCV approach that have been implemented in practice in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia and Mbangassina, Cameroon. Proforest's Hélène Mbaididje and Stephan Kitzbichler, GIZ, shared their first-hand experiences of using HCV screening and assessments at landscape scale. Watch the webinar here.
Leadership for landscapes and forests: integrating actions and stakeholders
21 November 2022
In a talk with Ian Welsh, Proforest's Abraham Baffoe and Mike Senior discuss what good policies look like to ensure producer voices are heard, create incentives and transparency, and mitigate unintended consequences hindering progress. Listen to the full podcast here.
What does landscape approach delivery actually look like?
28 October 2022
Proforest's Mike Senior and Abraham Baffoe discussed how landscape approaches can work in practice. Speaking also about the leadership that is necessary from grower country governments, and why science-based targets for nature are going to be a key future innovation. Listen to the full podcast here.
Delivering successful landscape outcomes for Indonesia’s forests
14 October 2022
In this podcast, Proforest's Veronique Bovee and Mila Nuh talk about why preserving forests and ecosystems can mean adopting a pragmatic approach in working landscapes. Discussing some of the challenges encountered in Indonesia, the importance of collaboration with indigenous communities and how transparency fosters trust. Listen here.
NYC Climate Week 2022: Amazon Origin Cocoa- Beyond deforestation-free potential
22 September 2022
A webinar organised by TFA and partners at New York Climate Week 2022. Hear from Proforest's Daniel Arancibia on the importance of cocoa of Amazonian origin and the progress made towards sustainable cocoa. Watch the webinar here.
Protecting land rights in commodity supply chains
14 June 2022
An Accountability Framework's webinar featuring Proforest's Justin Dupré-Harbord joined by experts from Forest Peoples Programme, Foundation of Sustainable Forest Peoples Indonesia, Landesa and Rainforest Alliance, sharing best practice on respecting Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities land rights in commodity supply chains. Watch the webinar.
ITC Roundtables on Deforestation implications of the EU deforestation regulation
9 June 2022
This webinar features Mike Senior, Proforest presenting the keynote speech for the Deforestation 3rd Roundtable. Watch the webinar.
Understanding company action in landscape and jurisdictional approaches (podcast)
9 May 2022
This podcast, organised by ISEAL, features Proforest's Ruth Nussbaum speaking on the importance of collective engagement beyond individual supply chains to make locally relevant and effective changes in landscape activities. Listen to the podcast.
Landscape approaches: New guidance for companies from ISEAL
10 March 2022
Introducing ISEAL's guidance for effective company actions in landscapes and jurisdictions, developed in collaboration with CDP, Proforest, TFA and WWF. Watch the webinar.
How to make a landscape approach work for the entire value chain
4 March 2022
In this Innovation Forum podcast, IDH’s Matthew Spencer, Proforest’s Ruth Nussbaum and Conservation International’s John Buchanan discuss the landscape approach collaborative platform SourceUp. Listen to the recording.
Scaling up impacts and collaboration on jurisdictional/landscape approaches
27 January 2022
This webinar, organised by CDP, ISEAL and Proforest, supported by the Tropical Forest Alliance, looked at landscape and jurisdictional approaches from a private sector perspective, with representatives from Nestlé, Musim Mas and Clarmundial sharing insights.
Our Work in 2021
31 December 2021
A review of our work in 2021 supporting agricultural commodity production and sourcing to deliver positive social and environmental outcomes. Find out more about our vision and strategy here.
Africa-Latin America Exchange Webinar
10 December 2021
Lessons learned from the Asunafo-Asutifi Landscape Programme in Ghana. More information here.
Intercambio África-Latinoamérica
10 diciembre 2021
Lecciones aprendidas de nuestro programa de paisaje de África en Asunafo-Asutifi, Ghana. Haga clic aquí para obtener más información.
Integrating Workers’ Rights into Commodity Supply Chains
1 December 2021
This Accountability Framework Initiative (Afi) company training webinar was about applying the Accountability Framework to protect workers’ rights in agricultural supply chains. Speakers on the panel were from Proforest, Nestlé, Oxfam and the Rainforest Alliance.
Mitigating Human-Elephant Conflicts within Smallholder Landscapes in Sabah
30 November 2021
Seratu Aatai and Proforest brought together civil society organisations to share initiatives related to oil palm smallholder sustainability and human-elephant conflict. This is part of our work on Production and Protection Beyond Concessions.
Putting the Jurisdictional Approach to Work
22 November 2021
In this Jurisdictional Action Network webinar participants learned about how the jurisdictional approach encourages collective action to drive change at scale to achieve sustainable land use. Featuring Proforest, ISEAL, Tropical Forest Alliance and WWF.
Collaborative Soy Initiative: Multiple routes to conversion-free sustainable soy
18 November 2021
The Collaborative Soy Initiative and Proforest present a new ‘magicube’ narrative for combining the best of approaches for conversion-free sustainable soy.
GLF Climate 2021: How Can We Build Greener Supply Chains?
6 November 2021
At this Global Landscapes Forum event, speakers from Proforest, OroVerde, Olam Ghana, IUCN and CDP Europe discussed the transformational change needed to enable nature-positive supply chains for healthy ecosystems and livelihoods.
GLF Climate 2021: HCV Screening to Prioritize Conservation and Livelihoods
6 November 2021
At this Global Landscapes Forum event, speakers from Proforest, GIZ Indonesia and the HCV Resource Network discussed how HCV screening can prevent the destruction of nature in production landscapes.
The Cerrado Protocol: Key Results from the Consultation Process
28 September 2021
A webinar organised by Proforest and Imaflora to present the new Voluntary Monitoring Protocol for Cattle Suppliers in the Cerrado, covering key results from the consultation process and next steps for the protocol, with the aim of transforming the beef sector in Brazil.
Climate Week NYC: Jurisdictional Approaches in Southeast Asia
23 September 2021
Proforest's Southeast Asia Director Surin Suksuwan was invited to speak about jurisdictional approaches for sustainable commodity production in Southeast Asia as part of the Tropical Forest Alliance's series of Climate Week NYC events.
Creating Private Sector Behavioural Change to Sustainability
9 August 2021
This panel discussion hosted by Efeca, featuring speakers from Proforest, PCI Mato Grosso, the Accountability Framework Initiative and Nestlé, included a discussion about how to move beyond individual supply chain action.
Chatham House’s 31st Global Forum on Forest Governance
13 July 2021
We led a session on due diligence regulations and sustainable trade as part of Chatham House’s 31st Global Forum on Forest Governance, with viewpoints from government, smallholders, companies and those working on sustainable standards.
Jurisdictional Approaches: Concepts and Experiences in Brazil
6 April 2021
This CDP and Proforest webinar about jurisdictional and landscape approaches in Brazil featured speakers from PCI Mato Grosso, FAPCEN, Amaggi and Carrefour.
The Soy Toolkit: Resources for Responsible Soy Sourcing
18 March 2021
This webinar provided insights on how to implement responsible sourcing commitments using the Soy Toolkit. It featured presentations from AAK and Cargill.