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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

The Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative

The Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative

3 April 2023

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

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

Creating Harmonious Industrial Relations Through Bipartite Cooperation Institutions (Bahasa Indonesia)

Creating Harmonious Industrial Relations Through Bipartite Cooperation Institutions (Bahasa Indonesia)

9 January 2023

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

Categories: Southeast Asia Palm oil

Cocoa drying

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

22 December 2022

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

Categories: Supporting companies Cocoa

Cocoa pods

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

22 December 2022

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

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