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Accelerating Progress for Nature, Climate and People at Scale: Companies’ Roles and Action

Accelerating Progress for Nature, Climate and People at Scale: Companies’ Roles and Action

25 September 2023

This report by TFA and Proforest focuses on how companies, including but not limited to the forest, land and agricultural (FLAG) sectors, can help accelerate progress towards nature, climate and people goals by contributing to multi-stakeholder collaboration at landscape and jurisdictional scale.

Categories: People Nature Climate Supporting companies Landscapes

Beyond Value Chain Mitigation: Incentivising Corporate Action at Landscape and Jurisdictional Scale

Beyond Value Chain Mitigation: Incentivising Corporate Action at Landscape and Jurisdictional Scale

24 August 2023

This joint position contains a summary of some of the feedback from these organisations to the SBTi as part of its public consultation process and aims to serve as a reference and discussion point for stakeholders interested in building incentives for companies to take BVCM actions.

Categories: Climate Supporting companies Landscapes

Sharing Responsibility and Success - Companies Collaborate to Support Palm Oil Landscapes

Sharing Responsibility and Success - Companies Collaborate to Support Palm Oil Landscapes

28 July 2023

Informed by interviews with 18 companies and 11 landscape implementers as well as submissions to CDP’s forest questionnaire 2022, this report aims to map the way forward and mobilise more landscape-scale action by downstream and midstream companies in palm oil.

Categories: Supporting companies Landscapes Palm oil

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

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

5 May 2023

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: Supporting companies Landscapes Forest products

Respecting Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Landscape Initiatives

Respecting Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Landscape Initiatives

21 March 2023

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.

Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Landscapes

Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability

Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability

1 February 2023

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

Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability: Progress and the Path Forward

Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability: Progress and the Path Forward

30 January 2023

This report explores why and how manufacturers, retailers, and traders are using landscape and jurisdictional approaches in cocoa production areas. The most prominent systemic issue companies seek to address using landscape...

Categories: Landscapes Cocoa

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

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

18 January 2023

Agriculture is the predominant source of livelihoods for over 70% of Liberia’s population. 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

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

16 January 2023

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 Supporting companies Landscapes Southeast Asia

Gender and social inclusion strategy for the Asunafo-Asutifi Production Landscape

Gender and social inclusion strategy for the Asunafo-Asutifi Production Landscape

21 December 2022

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: Human Rights & Social Issues Production Landscape Programmes People Nature Landscapes Africa

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

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

20 December 2022

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

Gender and Social inclusion in Production Landscapes

Gender and Social inclusion in Production Landscapes

21 November 2022

A case study of the Asunafo-Asutifi Landscape in the Ahafo Region of Ghana

Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Landscapes Africa