Publications

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

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 Production landscapes

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

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 Production landscapes

Risk Benchmarking for the EU Deforestation Regulation: Key Principles & Recommendations

Trase and Proforest have released a comprehensive risk benchmarking framework and methodology aimed at supporting the European Union’s deforestation regulation (EUDR) system.

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

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: Production landscapes Palm oil

Aligning efforts to report and act on land use change emissions and commodity-driven deforestation and conversion

For many companies, the progress they can make on reducing Land Use Change emissions is closely related to the actions they need to take to address deforestation and ecosystem conversion in their supply chains.

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.

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: Production 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

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.

Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Production landscapes

Company Landscape Engagement for Cocoa Sustainability

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: Production landscapes Cocoa

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

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: Production 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. 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 Production landscapes Africa Palm oil