Publications

Nature Positive Farming – package to support smallholder producers achieve Deforestation and Conversion Free sourcing requirements.

Nature Positive Farming (NPF), developed by the HCV Network, provides a unique stepwise approach to build smallholder capacity and ownership to move towards DCF production. This is coupled with a package of self-reporting and remote verification tools to provide transparency and assurance to companies. Development of this publication was supported by Proforest under its IKI-funded work.

Categories: Production Landscape Programmes, Southeast Asia

Beyond Supply Chains: Pulp, Paper and Packaging Companies Take Landscape Action for Sustainability at Scale

This report explores why and how downstream and midstream companies are engaging at landscape scale to achieve sustainable land use in pulp, paper and packaging (PPP) production areas. Companies engage at this scale to meet their own sustainability commitments and improve relationships with local communities and stakeholders.

Categories: Landscapes, Forest products

The Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative

Ten West and Central African countries commit to sustainable commodity production, with new Declaration signed at CoP27, November 9, 2022

Categories: APOI / Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative, Africa, Palm oil, Forest products, Rubber, Cocoa, Timber, English, French

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.

It has been created through a collaboration between Landesa and Proforest.

Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues, Landscapes, English

Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability

This paper is part of a global study on private sector engagement at landscape and jurisdictional scale and is conducted by the Tropical Forest Alliance (TFA) in collaboration with Proforest, CDP and others.

The study aims to advance understanding of landscape and jurisdictional approaches as a key corporate strategy towards nature-positive businesses and to map the way forward to mobilise more private sector action and multi-stakeholder collaboration at scale.

Categories: Landscapes, Cocoa

Guidance on Engagement Principles for the National Oil Palm Strategy and Action Plan of Liberia

Agriculture is the predominant source of livelihoods for over 70% of Liberia’s population. Palm oil is one of the most important agricultural commodities for export. Together with rubber, cocoa and coffee, they account for about 34% of Liberia’s GDP. The government of Liberia has prioritised palm oil production as one of the most important industries for the future and there is interest from global companies who have committed to invest around USD 6 billion.

Categories: Production Landscape Programmes, Landscapes, Africa, Palm oil

Engaging with Landscape Initiatives: A practical guide for supply chain companies in Indonesia

This guide collates our learning on where and how supply chain companies can most effectively engage with these landscape initiatives to help meet their commitments, recognising the different roles and participation of other stakeholders in the process.

Categories: Production Landscape Programmes, Landscapes, Southeast Asia

Menciptakan Hubungan Industrialyang Harmonis Melalui Lembaga Kerjasama Bipartit

The document is a guidance for companies in Indonesia that aim to develop bipartite agreements.

Categories: Southeast Asia, Palm oil, Bahasa Indonesia

EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products: Operational Guidance for Cocoa Producers and Importers

Proforest has developed an operational guidance for cocoa producers and importers to support the implementation of the upcoming EU regulation on deforestation-free products.

Categories: Supporting companies, Cocoa

EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products: Reference Document for Cocoa Producers and Importers

In this reference document, Proforest synthesises existing best practices and tools for conducting supply chain Deforestation Due Diligence in the cocoa sector and identifies key unanswered questions for regulators and companies.

Categories: Supporting companies, Cocoa

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.

Categories: Production Landscape Programmes, Landscapes, Africa

Review and Analysis of Key Policies and Institutional Framework Governing Deforestation and Associated Social Issues in the Tree Crop Sector of Liberia

The overall aim of this study was to identify existing laws, policies and strategies on the cultivation of selected tree crops (cocoa, natural rubber, palm oil and timber) linked to deforestation, child labour, forced labour, land rights, and smallholder inclusion in Liberia.

Categories: Production Landscape Programmes, Landscapes, Africa