Publications

Discussion paper on human rights related risks and issues within a landscape initiative
12 January 2021Overview of key elements for an approach to respect human rights related risks and issues within a landscape initiative

06 Guidance for addressing land rights grievances
17 October 2020Practical and action-oriented guidance on how to manage and address land rights grievances in the palm oil sector.

05 Guidance for forced labour grievances
29 September 2020This document provides practical and action-oriented guidance on how to manage and address grievances related to forced labour in the palm oil sector. The guidance provides information about how to verify and identify causes of grievances, develop action plans for remediation and resolution, and minimise chances of future non-compliance and conflict.

04 Guidance for child labour grievances
29 September 2020The guidance provides information about how to verify and identify causes of grievances, develop action plans for remediation and resolution, and minimise chances of future non-compliance and conflict.

03 Guidance for Minimum Wage grievances
29 September 2020This guidance is primarily developed for growers or mills as a first point of contact, but corrective actions ultimately need to be carried out wherever a grievance on minimum wage is occurring, whether in mills, plantations they own or/and plantations of outgrower or smallholder farms they source from.

02 Guidance for Deforestation grievances
29 September 2020This guidance is primarily developed for growers or mills as a first point of contact, but corrective actions ultimately need to be carried out where deforestation happened whether by mills, plantations they own or/and plantations of outgrower or smallholder farms that they source from.

01 Guidance for Peat Grievances
29 September 2020The 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.

05 Worker Voice Technologies
31 August 2020This document discusses Worker Voice Technology, a term referring to digital worker reporting platforms designed to obtain information directly from workers in order to generate data on working conditions.

02 Drivers of child labour, forced labour, inadequate health and safety, and land rights abuses and disputes in agriculture and forestry
30 October 2019Proforest | 2019 | Proforest
This document outlines some of the most common underlying conditions in which child labour, forced labour, inadequate health and safety, and land rights abuses and disputes are reported to occur in...

01 Using social risk assessment in approaches to responsible sourcing of agricultural commodities
18 October 2019Proforest | 2019 | Proforest
This document provides suggestions for how companies can use social risk assessment as part of their responsible sourcing strategies for agricultural commodities. It gives an overview of why social...