Illicit Harvest, Complicit Goods: the State of Illegal Deforestation for Agriculture
SECTION | MAY 2021 FOREST POLICY TRADE AND FINANCE INITIATIVE REPORT | MAY 2021 ILLICIT HARVEST, COMPLICIT GOODS: THE STATE OF ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION FOR AGRICULTURE CASSIE DUMMETT ARTHUR BLUNDELL WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM KERSTIN CANBY, MICHAEL WOLOSIN AND ESZTER BODNAR ILLICIT HARVEST, COMPLICIT GOODS: ii THE STATE OF ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION FOR AGRICULTURE Acknowledgments This report is an update of the 2014 Forest Trends report Consumer Goods and Deforestation: An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture and Timber Plantations, written by Sam Lawson, Art Blundell, Bruce Cabarle, Naomi Basik Treanor, Michael Jenkins, and Kerstin Canby. The lead authors, Cassie Dummet and Art Blundell, with Michael Wolosin, Kerstin Canby, and Eszter Bodnar, would like to thank all those who supported the project and made this research possible. Case study lead authors included Gabriel Carrero (Brazil) and David Brown (Indonesia). Special thanks go to Sam Lawson for his continued contributions to the update. Forest Trends would also like to thank the external reviewers who generously gave of their time to enrich this report (in alphabetical order): Tasso Azevedo, James Acworth, Melissa Blue Sky, Beto Borges, Bruce Cabarle, Kim Carlson, Marcus Colchester, Lafcadio Cortesi, Andrew Davis, Fillipo del Gatto, Peter Dewees, Jean-Christophe Diepart, Mike Dwyer, Ikem Eronini, David Gibbs, Alberto Gonzalez, Marcus Hardtke, Etelle Higonnet, Khin Saw Htay, Rick Jacobson, Gabrielle Kissinger, Arnaud Labrousse, Yao Hua Law, Teckwyn Lim, Samuel Mawutor, Sarah Milne, Giuseppe Molinario, Kim Myers, Julie Nash, Rolando Navarro, Sten Nilson, Ruth Nogueron, Marigold Norman, Krystof Obidzinski, Marin Persson, Ivan Dario Valencia Rodriguez, Michael Richards, Jade Saunders, Carlos Sousa, Lela Stanley, Phuc X To, Romain Taravella, Naomi Basik Treanor, Mikaela Weisse, Dan Whyner, John Woods, Kevin Woods, and Alfredo Rodriguez Zunino.
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