The side-event will show how improved accessibility and transparency of information along complex commodity supply chains can help improve governance, build trust among trade partners, and support...

Supporting the TFA APOI Congolese platform

As consumers globally become more selective about choosing products based on sustainable production processes, suppliers must increasingly provide evidence that their goods are made without...

Webinar: Terpercaya – Finding trusted jurisdictional models of sustainable palm oil production and trade in Indonesia Date and time: Tuesday, 30 March 2021 Duration: 2 hours, 14h – 16h...

A new blog by the EU REDD Facility’s Asia Coordinator Jeremy Broadhead poses the question – whose responsibility is forest protection and restoration? Drawing on his experience in the Kayu...

I’m frequently asked why tropical countries shouldn’t clear forests when many industrialised countries cleared theirs years ago. It’s an interesting question and one that I’ve been grappling with...

Demonstrating and promoting district level sustainable commodity production

Tracking sustainable palm oil and defining jurisdictional sustainability

Linking supply and demand-side measures Many major agricultural commodities such as beef, soy, sugar and palm oil drive deforestation in tropical countries. There is a growing awareness that in...

Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation Forest degradation Human activities that drive forest degradation include overgrazing, demand for fuel wood and charcoal, excessive logging...

Indonesia Indonesia is home to the third largest area of tropical forests in the world after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its forests contain some of the world’s most...

Côte d'Ivoire Between 1960 and 2017, Côte d'Ivoire's forest cover declined from 12 million hectares to less than 3 million hectares as agriculture, cocoa production in particular, expanded....