Guidance for peat grievances

This document was commissioned by Cargill and written by Proforest as part of Proforest’s work with Cargill on grievances and how to address grievances with its suppliers.

It was designed to guide internal processes, but Cargill decided to make the short guidance public to demonstrate how it approaches these issues. The long form of this guidance will not be published, but is referenced in places throughout this document, and these references have been left in to demonstrate where more information is available. If you are interested please send a request to receive the more detailed information to info@proforest.net

The guidance is primarily developed for growers or mills as a first point of contact, but corrective actions ultimately need to be carried out where peat degradation happened whether by mills, plantations they own or/and plantations of outgrowers or smallholder farms that they source from.

Download: 01 Guidance for peat grievances

This is part of a series commissioned by Cargill and written by Proforest as part of Proforest’s work with Cargill on grievances, and how to address grievances with its suppliers. Download the others below.

• Introduction to the series
• 01 Guidance for peat grievances
• 02 Guidance for deforestation grievances
• 03 Guidance for minimum wage grievances
• 04 Guidance for child labour grievances
• 05 Guidance for forced labour grievances
• 06 Guidance for addressing land rights grievances