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Transamazonica Connections landscape initiative completes Phase I
8 April 2024The 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.
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Multistakeholder engagement on sustainable transition of soy and cattle sectors
6 November 2023Proforest, 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.
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Alliance to Reduce Deforestation and Promote Low Carbon Livestock Farming in the Transamazonic Region of Pará State
17 October 2023The result of a partnership between Solidaridad, Imaflora and Proforest, the Transamazonica Connections programme promotes multisectoral coordination in the region.
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The Cerrado Protocol Advances to a New Phase
3 October 2022The ”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.
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The New Voluntary Monitoring Protocol for Cattle Suppliers in the Cerrado
1 October 2021Tackling social and environmental issues associated with cattle production in the Brazilian Cerrado.
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Online event: Voluntary Monitoring Protocol for Cattle Suppliers in the Cerrado – Key results from the consultation
28 September 2021Companies 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...
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Tyson Foods Partners with Proforest to Conduct Global Deforestation Risk Assessment
29 October 2019Findings from the risk assessment will inform the development of a Tyson Foods Forest Protection Policy in 2020
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Addressing soy and beef driven deforestation in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay
31 January 2018Proforest 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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10 years of GTPS: lessons learnt to be presented at the next General Assembly
16 November 2017This year, the Brazilian Roundtable on Sustainable Livestock (GTPS, in Portuguese) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary via events on 16-17 November in São Paulo. Proforest has been gathering lessons learnt during its first 10 years.
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Unlocking private sector potential for responsible beef and soy production.
22 August 2017Proforest’s Latin America team recently travelled to the Chaco region of Argentina as part of our work supporting the Collaboration for Forests and Agriculture (CFA).
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