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Proforest is a unique, non-profit group. We support companies, governments, civil society and other organisations to work towards the responsible production and sourcing of agricultural and forest commodities.

What we do

At Proforest we’re passionate about helping people produce and source agricultural and forest commodities responsibly. That’s why we support companies throughout supply chains to have positive social and environmental outcomes in the places where commodities are produced.

Our focus

Our work supports agricultural commodity production and sourcing that can deliver positive social and environmental outcomes. This means working with producers and supply chains to have positive impacts for the people and places where commodities are produced.

Effective collaboration

We believe that many sustainability issues can only be solved by effective collaboration and partnership. Many companies, governments, civil society organisations and communities are already committed to making forest and agricultural commodity production and sourcing more sustainable. We work with these different groups, supporting collaboration that ranges from sector-wide multi-stakeholder sustainability partnership to initiatives in individual production landscapes to help maximise their impact.

Collaboration

By acting together to address common problems within a sector, companies have greater leverage to create change. From production landscapes to downstream supply chain companies, we encourage and facilitate collaboration between companies to align objectives and work together pre-competitively.

We actively engage and lead work with initiatives like the Consumer Goods Forum’s Forest Positive Coalition of Action, the Soft Commodities Forum and the Palm Oil Collaboration Group. 

Multi-stakeholder initiatives

We work with many different multi-stakeholder initiatives ranging from regional partnerships such as the Africa Sustainable Commodities Initiative that involves governments, companies and NGOs from ten countries, to long-term support for voluntary sustainability standards and roundtables such as RSPO, RTRS,RA, Bonsucro and Landscale, as well as cross-sectoral good practice initiatives such as AFi and the HCV Network.

See our work

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Production Landscape Programme Africa - supporting supply chain companies

The Production Landscape Programme (PLP) is supporting supply chain companies in Ghana, Liberia and Cameroon to work effectively at the landscape level by aligning their actions and commitments on deforestation and other...

Projects

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Working with smallholders for sustainable sugarcane production in the Philippines

A landscape initiative aiming to enhance farming practices and working conditions for small farmers.

Projects

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The Siak and Pelalawan Landscape Programme (SPLP)

Proforest, together with Daemeter as part of CORE, is supporting 8 palm oil sourcing companies in meeting their commitments of sourcing deforestation and exploitation free palm oil from the districts of Siak and Pelalawan, in...