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Setting up and strengthening gender committees in the palm oil sector

14 April 2025

Gender committees are established to oversee organisational initiatives promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in the workplace. However, in Indonesia, they are often misperceived as women-only organisations focused on...

Categories: People Landscapes Southeast Asia Palm oil

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The potential role of labor unions in advocating for casual daily workers’ rights

4 April 2025

In palm oil plantations, 50-70% of workers are typically casual workers who face significant vulnerabilities due to their lack of contractual status. As they are not formally employed, they cannot join trade unions, leaving them...

Categories: People Landscapes Southeast Asia Palm oil

Proforest Initiative Africa 2024 Annual Report

Proforest Initiative Africa 2024 Annual Report

14 January 2025

This annual report highlights our progress and commitment to promoting the responsible sourcing and production of agricultural commodities in Africa. We are happy to share our contribution towards delivering positive social and...

Categories: APOI / Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative Production Landscape Programmes People Landscapes Africa Cocoa

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Core Criteria for Mature Landscape Initiatives

7 November 2024

With increasing interest and engagement in landscape initiatives, it is critical that all stakeholders have a simple and consistent understanding of the core elements of a mature landscape initiative. Many of the leading landscape practitioner organisations have come together to agree on those core criteria and accompanying sub-criteria, which are presented here.

Category: Landscapes

Social Safeguarding Process for Landscape and Jurisdictional Initiatives (LJIs)

Social Safeguarding Process for Landscape and Jurisdictional Initiatives (LJIs)

28 May 2024

This guidance is a resource for planners and implementers of landscape initiatives and suggests practical approaches to ensuring globally applicable minimum safeguarding process: laying out the key steps that all initiatives...

Categories: Human Rights & Social Issues People Landscapes International

Landscape-level measurement for biodiversity and nature

Landscape-level measurement for biodiversity and nature

15 May 2024

Practical steps for advancing a common foundational approach

Categories: Nature Landscapes

Landscape-level measurement for biodiversity and nature

Landscape-level measurement for biodiversity and nature

15 May 2024

Global regulatory and reporting context for the private sector

Categories: Nature Landscapes

Transamazonica Connections - Building common goals for the livestock sector in Novo Repartimento (PA), Brazil

Transamazonica Connections - Building common goals for the livestock sector in Novo Repartimento (PA), Brazil

19 March 2024

The Transamazonica Connections initiative, supported by Neste, is a partnership created in March 2023 between the Fundação Solidaridad, Imaflora and Proforest.

Categories: People Nature Climate Landscapes Latin America Cattle

Implementation of a Regional Landscape Approach and Sustainable Management Plan: the case of the San Pedro Landscape

Implementation of a Regional Landscape Approach and Sustainable Management Plan: the case of the San Pedro Landscape

14 March 2024

Drawing up a sustainable management and investment plan for the landscape is a complex and crucial undertaking to ensure the preservation of the environment and the socio-economic development of a given region. Drawing on the...

Categories: Production Landscape Programmes People Nature Climate Landscapes Africa

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Companies Collaborating for Sustainable Soy Landscapes: Progress and Transition Pathways

1 February 2024

How and why midstream and downstream companies have taken landscape-scale action in soy production areas

Categories: People Nature Climate Supporting companies Landscapes Latin America Soy

Aligning Company and Government Action on Deforestation: Lessons from Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Peru

Aligning Company and Government Action on Deforestation: Lessons from Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Peru

15 January 2024

Proforest worked to better coordinate and align private companies’ zero deforestation activities with public climate change mitigation programmes in Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Peru.

Categories: Nature Supporting companies Landscapes Africa Latin America

Starting the Journey: Companies Collaborate for Beef Sustainability at Scale

Starting the Journey: Companies Collaborate for Beef Sustainability at Scale

25 October 2023

This report explores how and why midstream and downstream companies have taken landscape-scale action in beef producing areas. A collaboration between the Tropical Forest Alliance, Proforest, and CDP.

Categories: Nature Climate Supporting companies Effective collaboration Landscapes Cattle