Soft Commodities Forum progress report December 2019 Building transparent and traceable soy supply chains in ’s region Contents

1 About the report | 3

2 Executive summary | 4

3 Traceability to farm | 6 Why and how

4 Company data | 9

5 Soy production in the 25 priority municipalities | 11

6 Working together | 16 Impactful collective action

7 Next steps | 19

8 Appendix 1 | 21

9 Endnotes | 22

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 2 1 About the report The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) is a global platform for leading soft commodities companies, convened by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) for the purpose of advancing collective action around common sustainability challenges.

Addressing environmental To achieve this goal, SCF challenges in agricultural value members, starting from soy in Who we are chains is a key priority to mitigate the Cerrado, seek to increase The SCF is unique as it brings the impact of climate change, traceability across their supply together the leading soft and preserve vital ecosystems chains and to develop solutions commodities traders globally, and biodiversity. In this context, that balance environmental, in a pre-competitive way, to SCF member companies have social and economic interests, address sustainability risks they each pledged to eliminate respect the rights of local all share in the soy sector, but deforestation from their supply communities and engage key which no single company can chains worldwide, through local stakeholders. solve alone. Members are Archer individual and collective action. Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, This report provides an update Cargill, COFCO International, on SCF’s work in 2019, as well Glencore Agriculture and Louis as insights into strategic Dreyfus Company (LDC). priorities and activities in 2020. The report was produced with the assistance of Proforest, the Soft Commodities Forum’s technical partner.

Solutions which will help transform global agricultural value chains need concerted collaborative efforts. WBCSD is encouraged by SCF’s progress to provide traceability in a very complex supply chain. Together, SCF members will help lead preservation of the Cerrado and beyond, but also promote positive and sustainable land-use changes.

Diane Holdorf Managing Director, Food and Nature, WBCSD

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 3 2 Executive summary In June 2019, the SCF published its first public report sharing details on a common framework for reporting and monitoring traceability of the members’ soy supply chains in the Cerrado. With guidance from Proforest, the SCF identified 25 priority municipalities (PMs) for engagement and analysis. The methodology used was based on identifying strong SCF member presence and high rates of native vegetation conversion (NVC) to soy.

In the June report, SCF What’s new in December? Working together to members published: create lasting impact In this report, SCF members • The percentage of soy sourced are reporting the percentage The SCF members have come from the Cerrado in 2018 out of soy directly sourced that is together out of recognition that of the total sourced in Brazil; traceable to farm. collective and targeted action is the most effective way to • The percentage of soy sourced The soy supply chain links a drive real change towards more from the 25 PMs in 2018 out multitude of Brazilian producers sustainable soy production in the of the total sourced from the to millions of consumers in Brazil Cerrado. Therefore, collective Cerrado; and beyond. Its complexity can and targeted action has always make it challenging to achieve been the number one priority • Out of the total soy sourced full traceability, in part due to high for the group. from the 25 PMs, the turnover of suppliers over time. percentage sourced directly In 2019, the SCF focused from farmers and the These complexities are reflected on identifying key areas for percentage sourced indirectly in the SCF members’ data in this intervention and engaging with from farmers via aggregators, report. While most companies are potential partners to leverage cooperatives and other third able to trace a large percentage and scale up existing efforts on parties. of the soy sourced in the 25 PMs the ground. With the support to farm, there is still room for of Proforest, the SCF also This information has helped improvement to ensure a fully analyzed different data sources the SCF better focus on those traceable and transparent soy for the 25 PMs to identify the areas where collective action supply chain in the Cerrado, most appropriate and impactful and traceability would bring the especially in areas where NVC landscape-level interventions biggest impact. is still a significant challenge. and to inform a baseline for future In chapter 4, SCF members monitoring of outcomes. report on their individual performance.

Moving forward, SCF Members commit to working towards full traceability to farm for direct soy sourcing across The SCF will the 25 PMs. continue reporting on progress throughout 2020, with the goal to report at least 95% of direct soy volume as traceable by the end of 2020.

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 4 2 Executive summary

The Soft Commodities Forum 25 PMs in the Cerrado

A Balsas H O Santa Rosa do V B Baixa Grande do Ribeiro I Mirador P Jaborandi W São Desidério C Formosa do Rio Preto J Q Ribeiro Gonçalves X Currais D Uruçuí K Correntina R Y Campos de Júlio E Carolina L Riachão das Neves S F M T Planalto da Serra G Lagoa da Confusão N Sambaíba U

Across the 25 PMs presented • Engaging leading growers • Working to increase the scale above, interventions will be of to identify and encourage and impact of existing dfferent levels depending on the uptake of more effective landscape level initiatives regional profiles and may include: production and land-use practices, with the ultimate • Supporting the implementation goal of supporting soy and roll-out of jurisdictional expansion into previously approaches with the aim of cleared land and degraded encouraging better land-use pastureland practices and compliance with the Forest Code

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 5 3 Traceability to farm Why and how

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 6 3 Traceability to farm Why and how Traceability to farm allows companies to engage with their suppliers, understand their needs and work together to promote desired change. It also allows companies to understand land-use change and identify issues related to compliance with local legislation and individual company policies. Although essential, achieving traceability, especially in the soy supply chain, in not straightforward.

Data reported by SCF members However, because many soy Figure 1 illustrates that in June show that, for the most farmers operate several farms, complexity. The same farmer, part, more than 90% of the the complexity of the soy for example, typically produces soy they source in the 25 PMs supply chains means buyers soy in more than one farm and comes directly from farmers, may not know exactly which the soy he/she is selling can which means a direct link to the farm produced the soy be aggregated from several production level. therefore missing a crucial step farms, through aggregators towards farm-level traceability. and cooperatives, before reaching buyers.

Figure 1: Traceability to farm

Who is producing Where is the the soy? soy produced?

Direct sources Farmer 1 Farm A

Farm B

Farmer 2 Farm C

Indirect sources Trader Cooperative Farmer 3 Farm D

Farmer 4 Farm E

Aggregator Farmer 1 Farm A

Farm B

Farmer 5 Farm F

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 7 3 Traceability to farm

In this report, SCF members While it remains a key focus are individually reporting the of their collaboration, SCF percentage of volume that is members understand that traceable to farm out of the total traceability is not an end in volume sourced directly from itself, but rather a tool to enable farmers in the 25 PMs in 2018. positive and collective action and to monitor progress in reducing conversion of native % Volumes were classified as 90 vegetation in their soy supply traceable to farm when one, chains. or both, of the two conditions below were satisfied: Chapter 5 and 6 of this report • Availability of an will elaborate on how the SCF Environmental of the soy volumes number is leveraging traceability and Rural Register (CAR) reported in June by of the farm(s) where soy was the data collected as part of most SCF members produced their analysis of the 25 PMs to came directly from inform their collective activity at • Availability of landscape level. geocoordinates farmers of the (GPS point) or polygon farm(s) where soy was produced

For indirect sourcing, members who purchase significant proportion of volume from intermediaries will develop action plans and report on progress to increase supply chain transparency of indirect sourcing.

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 8 4 Company data

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 9 4 Company data SCF members are committed to improving the traceability and transparency of their soy supply chains in the 25 PMs in Cerrado, to promote sustainable practices and demonstrate measurable reduction in NVC over time.

For this report, SCF members Select a logo to view the company’s individual traceability data collected traceability information coming from direct sources across the 25 PMs by gathering farm locations or CAR numbers for each purchase of soy. These volumes were then aggregated for all 25 PMs and are shown in this report as percentage of total volume of direct sources that are either traceable or not traceable.

By clicking on each company logo, you will be redirected to individual SCF member’s data, highlighting the percentage of soy sourced directly and traceable to farm, and their individual commitment to increase that percentage and reduce soy-driven native vegetation conversion in their respective supply chains.

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 10 5 Soy production in the 25 PMs

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 11 5 Soy production in the 25 PMs The Cerrado is a crucially important biome for both Brazil’s economic development as well as for its environmental conservation. It is home to 4,800 species of plants and vertebrates found nowhere else in the planet and it plays a critical role in the country’s water systems and climate regulation.

The Cerrado is also Brazil’s latest Strategies that are enabling this agricultural frontier, accounting and which need to be leveraged for approximately 43% of Brazil’s to further foster this trend total annual and perennial crop include cattle intensification, area and providing an important rehabilitation of degraded economic engine for local pastures, increase in soy communities and for Brazil as productivity and promotion of % a whole.1 Soy is a particularly soy expansion into available 8 important commodity for the cleared areas suitable to soy. Cerrado, occupying 8% of the To further encourage these biomes’ territory and representing positive trends, there should more than 50% of total area be more engagement, learning planted with soy in Brazil. In 2018 and action in soy production of Cerrado area is alone, soybean and soybean landscapes to drive and planted with soy products represented 17% of accelerate positive change. Brazilian exports, equivalent to 40.7 US$ Bi in gross exports2 SCF members selected 25 and official data from IBGE municipalities as priorities for reported more than 200,000 collective action, considering: rural properties producing soy 1) relevance for soy production; in the country.3 2) the highest conversion of native vegetation to soy and; The agricultural boom 3) greatest presence of experienced in the Cerrado members. In 2019, with the over the last few decades has support of Proforest, they been accompanied by a steady developed an in-depth analysis decline in the amount of native of each of these 25 municipalities, vegetation by almost half since to identify priorities for effective the 1970s. However, recent landscape-level action. 50% data shows a steady decoupling between soy production and Appendix 1 presents the data native vegetation conversion in used in the development of the Cerrado.4 this analysis, as well as their sources. of soy produced This trend is supported by in Brazil comes from scientific evidence showing the Cerrado that, while meeting a rising global demand, soy in the Cerrado biome is increasingly produced without necessarily resulting in native vegetation loss.

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 12 5 Soy production in the 25 PMs

Key findings Figure 2: Soy expansion and conversion of native vegetation in Cerrado Expansion without deforestation Expansion with deforestation Soy production and environmental conservation in the Cerrado are not 2000/01 – 2006/7 2006/7 – 2013/14 2013/14 – 2016/17 mutually exclusive.

Recent analysis show that Cerrado Biome Cerrado Biome Cerrado Biome soy expansion over recently 2001–2007 2007–2014 2014–2017 converted areas is decreasing in the 1,292,331 1,343,831 201,448 over time (Figure 2) Cerrado, including in MATOPIBA, 27% 18% 5% where the bulk of soy expansion has happened and is expected to continue.

Across the 25 PMs, native vegetation conversion has 3,566,518 5,964,823 3,635,741 also been declining (Figure 3). The native vegetation 73% 82% 95% conversion variation between 2014 and 2018 was consistently negative (-47% in average) for Southern Cerrado Southern Cerrado Southern Cerrado 24 out of the 25 PMs. 2001–2007 2007–2014 2014–2017 624,148 219,977 47,126 The analysis showed that 17% 4% 2% soy is not the main driver for native vegetation conversion in the 25 PMs. In practice, this means that in most municipalities, soy expansion is happening on previously 3,150,270 4,942,272 2,571,917 cleared land (Figure 4). From the total area of native 83% 96% 98% vegetation converted between 2014 and 2016 in the 25 PMs, only 18% were planted with soy MATOPIBA MATOPIBA MATOPIBA in 2017. 2001–2007 2007–2014 2014–2017

668,184 1,123,854 154,322 62% 52% 5%

416,249 1,022,551 1,063,824 38% 48% 87%

Source: Agrosatélite Geotecnologia Aplicada Análise geoespacial da dinâmica da soja no bioma Cerrado: 2014 a 2017. Florianópolis, 2018.

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Figure 3: Variation of native vegetation conversion in the PMs in 2014–2018

Mirador (MA) Campos de Júlio (MT) Mateiros (TO) Riachão das Neves (BA) Lagoa da Confusão (TO) Ribeiro Gonçalves (PI) Monte do Carmo (TO) Pium (TO) Correntina (BA) (TO) Campos Lindos (TO) Carolina (MA) Planalto da Serra (MT) Jaborandi (BA) São Desidério (BA) Uruçuí (PI) Balsas (MA) Porto Nacional (TO) Formosa do Rio Preto (BA) Peixe (TO) Sambaíba (MA) Goiatins (TO) Aparecida do Rio Negro (TO) Baixa Grande do Ribeiro (PI) Currais (PI) -0.9 -0.8 -0.7 -0.6 -0.5 -0.4 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 0.1 0.0

Figure 4: Native vegetation conversion to soy and to other uses (PMs ordered from high to low NVC to soy area) Other uses in 2017 over native vegetation conversion 2014–2016 (ha) CALCULATED Soy in 2017 over native vegetation conversion 2014–2016 (ha) GTC

Balsas (MA) Baixa Grande do Ribeiro (PI) Formosa do Rio Preto (BA) Uruçuí (PI) Carolina (MA) Peixe (TO) Lagoa da Confusão (TO) Porto Nacional (TO)

Mirador (MA) and GTC Cerrado/INPE PRODES Source: Goiatins (TO) Correntina (BA) Riachão das Neves (BA) Pium (TO) Sambaíba (MA) Santa Rosa do Tocantins (TO) Jaborandi (BA) Ribeiro Gonçalves (PI) Mateiros (TO) Aparecida do Rio Negro (TO) Planalto da Serra (MT) Campos Lindos (TO) Monte do Carmo (TO) São Desidério (BA) Currais (PI) Campos de Júlio (MT) 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 0

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 14 5 Soy production in the 25 PMs

Despite these positive trends, In this complex system, to SCF members acknowledge that effectively promote sustainable NVC to soy is an urgent issue soy production and land-use, best tackled with targeted and multi-industry, multi-stakeholder positive action. Over 90,000 and multi-commodity solutions hectares of soy were planted are required. on recently converted native vegetation areas in 2017 in the While the SCF focus will remain 25 PMs.5 From the 104,645 across all of the 25 PMs, the hectares converted in 2018,6 analysis described in this a proportion could have been chapter was needed to develop % planted with soy in 2019 or may a more targeted approach to test 18 be planted in the future. the best ways to address NVC in those producing areas with A number of factors make the highest conversion risks, as reducing and eventually well as the highest opportunities eliminating NVC challenging. for expansion into available of the total area of First, conversion of native cleared areas. The next chapter native vegetation vegetation in the Cerrado is details the SCF landscape-level converted between legally allowed by the Forest approach to collective action, 2014 and 2016 was Code, providing that Permanent and how the group plans to Preservation Areas and Legal engage, collaborate and invest planted with soy Reserves are maintained and to drive impact. in 2017 legal permits for conversion are obtained.

Protecting native vegetation beyond the Forest Code demands sectoral and jurisdictional collaboration, developing incentives for farmers to go beyond legal requirements. Also, the implementation of the Forest Code still requires collaboration with farmers and government to ensure an effective mechanism that integrates legal permits into the CAR system.

In addition, native vegetation is often cleared by actors who are outside of conventional supply chains, for example by companies speculating on land. Soy may take years to reach these converted areas, and the soy producers are not those who converted it in the first place. This means that bringing the right players into the conversation is not always easy, or possible.

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 15 6 Working together Impactful collective action

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 16 6 Working together Impactful collective action Any effective approach taken to reduce and eventually eliminate NVC in the Cerrado needs to begin by engaging producers. Understanding their current practices, challenges and motivations will be essential to develop tailored plans that work for them in each specific production region.

The Forest Code The Forest Code requires In 2020 the SCF will develop and requires landowners in landowners in the Cerrado to implement a phased approach keep between 20 and 35% through a series of landscape the Cerrado to keep of their property under legal level initiatives, in partnerships between 20 and 35% reserve, allowing conversion with stakeholders who share the of their property under of valuable natural habitats. same goals. The shared objective legal reserve. Therefore, getting producers is to promote sustainable soy to go above and beyond production through approaches legal compliance is a key specific to each PM. Approaches success factor and requires a may include: financial incentives combination of market signals for protection of surplus of and incentives. Most importantly, native vegetation, intensification any approach needs to balance of production (increase economic profitability with soy productivity, livestock environmental conservation, farming integration, livestock demonstrating that producers intensification), enabling soy in the Cerrado do not face a expansion over degraded areas zero-sum choice between and supporting Forest Code economic development and implementation. environmental considerations. Producing soy sustainably The SCF is taking a 3-phased is possible. approach to collective action as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Phased-approach to develop collective action 1 2 3

Co-develop, with Engage producers Implement the partners, a roadmap for and key local action plan at landscape action at municipality stakeholders to assess level, measuring level, defining current practices outcomes and key objectives, and co-develop planning for future stakeholders, tactics solutions scale-up and timelines

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The SCF will not be able to Boxes 1, 2 and 3 provide insights on some of the planned implement this approach alone, actions for 2020 which is why working with partners and leveraging existing approaches is so important. Box 1 Any solution that ignores the linkages between value chains Action in Bahia on the ground will not succeed. Restoring degraded pasture and promote intensification In addition to landscape-level in Bahia partnerships across the Across the 25 PMs there are still approximately over 1 million 25 PMs, the SCF members hectares of cleared areas suitable to soy and potentially remain committed and aligned available for soy expansion. Almost half of this cleared land is to the Grupo do Trabalho do concentrated in Bahia state. Improving land-use practices in a Cerrado (GTC). They will support way that encourages the expansion of soy to these available engagement with producers areas and their restoration to improve productivity will reduce through better land-use the risk of NVC, without impacting the economic development practices and the development of soy and cattle production for Brazil. In 2020, the SCF will of voluntary incentives for begin pilot projects across Bahia to engage lead farmers across sustainable production. focus municipalities, assess current practices, and provide technical assistance to further increase productivity and promote expansion to available cleared areas.

Box 2 Action in Mato Grosso

Support existing and emerging jurisdictional approaches to encourage legal compliance and provide access to market for sustainable soy The SCF will focus on identifying local drivers for NVC in Mato Grosso and work with local stakeholders to enforce legal compliance, invest in the restoration of degraded land and forest, and link farmers with financial incentives.

Box 3 Action in Tocantins

Promoting adoption of sustainable management practices and better land-use planning In Tocantins, the SCF will engage producers in order to build partnerships for sustainable soy production through climate smart agriculture and better land-use planning.

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 18 7 Next steps

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 19 7 Next steps 2020 will be a critical year for environmental conservation for Brazil and other regions affected by unsustainable land-use practices. There is a compelling mandate for companies – especially those in the agricultural value chain – to do more, but a lot of uncertainty remains around the most effective way to do so.

The role of producers and the Balancing Brazil’s right for communities they live and economic growth and the work in, in achieving NVC-free environmental imperative to soy production cannot be conserve native vegetation is underestimated. Tackling NVC not simple. Companies in the in the Cerrado urgently requires agricultural value chain have producers, private sector and a responsibility to contribute government to collaborate to the economies where they and drive positive change, but operate without jeopardizing the it should not be portrayed as environmental, social and human a zero-sum game between rights of the local communities. economic development and environmental conservation. Despite these challenges the The two can and must coexist SCF members remain committed for any lasting solution to work. to scaling their individual as well as collective action towards % 2020 will be an important year sustainable soy production 95 for the SCF to fine tune in the Cerrado and making a common goals and individual measurable difference. commitments, test what works and what does not and to scale up project scope. The minimum soy volume the SCF In June 2020 SCF members will commits to report as report progress towards their collective traceability target traceable to farm by and how this is supporting end of 2020 engagement with producers.

The SCF will also share an update on the implementation of landscape-level initiatives across the 25 PMs. The objective is to develop bespoke roadmaps for each of the PMs and linked to specific KPIs to measure progress over time.

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 20 8 Appendix 1 Data and sources used in analysis of 25 PMs in Cerrado

Data name Local Authority Data source Soy planted on Total area (ha) planted with soy in 2017 on GTC, using PRODES/INPE recently converted areas of native vegetation converted areas between 2014 and 2016

Soy area Total area (ha) planted with soy in 2014, 2015, PAM7/IBGE 2016, 2017

Native vegetation Total area (ha) of native vegetation converted PRODES/INPE conversion area in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Land-use classes Total area (ha) covered with native vegetation, Mapbiomas area pasture, agriculture and other uses in 2017

Protected areas Total area (ha) within Protected Areas8 GTC, using IBGE in 2018

Suitable native Total area (ha) suitable to soy covered with GTC/ABIOVE,9 using vegetation area native vegetation outside Protected Areas TerraClass10/INPE and in 2019 PRODES

Suitable cleared Total area (ha) cleared11 and suitable to soy GTC/ABIOVE, using area outside Protected Areas in 2014 TerraClass

CAR coverage Proportion (%) of total area eligible12 for Agroideal,14 using SICAR15/ CAR13 in the municipality that was registered SFB16 in 2018

CAR validation Proportion (%) of validated17 CAR out of total SICAR/SFB number of CAR entries in 2019

PRA adherence Proportion (%) of PRA18 out of total number SICAR/SFB of CAR entries in 2019

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 21 9 Endnotes 1 Mapbiomas. Brazilian Annual 6 Area of native vegetation 15 SICAR. National System for Land Use and Land Cover converted (ha) per municipality Environmental Rural Registry. Mapping Project. Available at: in 2018, PRODES Cerrado, Available at: http://mapbiomas.org/ INPE – National Institute for http://www.car.gov.br/#/ Space Research. 2 Brazilian Ministry of Industry, http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe. 16 SFB. Brazilian Forestry System Foreign Trade and Services br/app/dashboard/deforestation/ Available at: biomes/cerrado/increments 17 Validated CAR. CAR is a http://www.mdic.gov.br/index. self-declaration system php/comercio-exterior/ 7 PAM. Municipal Agricultural made by farmers. Once estatisticas-de-comercio- Production/ IBGE. Brazilian declared, information is exterior/series-historicas Institute of Geography and validated by environmental Statistics (acronyms in agency in relation to quantity 3 Agricultural Census, 2017. Portuguese). Available at: of native vegetation and IBGE. Brazilian Institute of https://sidra.ibge.gov.br/home/ overlaps with Protected Areas Geography and Statistics ipca/brasil and other properties. (acronym in Portuguese). Available at: 8 Protected Areas in this case 18 PRA. Environmental Regularization Programme. https://censoagro2017.ibge. included Indigenous Territories gov.br/templates/censo_agro/ & Conservation Units, except resultadosagro/agricultura. for APA (Area for Environmental html?localidade=0&tema=76517 Protection).

4 Agrosatélite Geotecnologia 9 ABIOVE. Brazilian Association Aplicada Análise geoespacial of Vegetable Oil Industries da dinâmica da soja no bioma (acronym in Portuguese) Cerrado: 2014 a 2017. Florianópolis, 2018. 10 Terraclass. Mapping of Use and Vegetation Cover in Cerrado. https://agrosatelite.com.br/ Available at: cases/#expansao-agricola http://www.dpi.inpe.br/tccerrado/ 5 Soy planted in 2017 in areas of native vegetation converted 11 Cleared areas include urban between 2014 and 2016 in areas, mining, agriculture, Cerrado biome, shapefile, reforestation, extrativism, developed by Agrosatelite. pastures and other uses. Data per Priority Municipality was obtained through GTC 12 Area eligible was calculated (Cerrado Working Group) via by deducting area of SCF members that have access Quilombola and Indigenous to the database. The dataset territories and Conservation used was dated April 2019. Units from total municipality area.

13 CAR. Environmental Rural Registry

14 Agroideal. Online territorial intelligence system for soy in Cerrado and Amazon biomes. Available at: https://agroideal.org/

December 2019 Soft Commodities Forum progress report | 22 Acknowledgements About WBCSD About Proforest In 2019, the SCF connected with WBCSD is a global, CEO-led Proforest is a leading non-profit several organizations sharing organization of over 200 leading group that supports companies, the same goals and ambitions. businesses working together governments and other The SCF would like to thank its to accelerate the transition to organizations to implement their current and future partners for a sustainable world. We help commitments to the responsible making this possible. make our member companies production and sourcing of more successful and sustainable agricultural commodities and This report, and the work of by focusing on the maximum forest products, such as palm the SCF in addressing native positive impact for shareholders, oil, soy, sugar, beef, timber, vegetation conversion could the environment and societies. and others. Five offices in four not take place without the continents form the group support from Proforest, our Our member companies come (UK, Malaysia, Brazil, Ghana, key Technical Partner and the from all business sectors and all and Colombia). Through a generous funding of the Gordon major economies, representing a combination of programs and and Betty Moore Foundation. combined revenue of more than consultancy services, Proforest USD $8.5 trillion and 19 million provides technical support, employees. Our global network capacity building, solution of almost 70 national business development and process Disclaimer councils gives our members facilitation. The SCF is fully compliant with unparalleled reach across the laws, including antitrust, which globe. WBCSD is uniquely As technical partners of the Soft prevent any kind of arrangement positioned to work with member Commodities Forum, Proforest or sharing of information that companies along and across is providing advisory support would reduce competition on value chains to deliver impactful and technical inputs for the price or on any other parameter business solutions to the most development of a common of competition. challenging sustainability issues. monitoring and reporting framework, also ensuring there Copyright © WBCSD, Together, we are the leading are links to wider sustainability December 2019. voice of business for and deforestations discussions. sustainability: united by our As part of this process, Proforest ISBN 978-2-940521-78-4 vision of a world where more is part of a confidentiality than 9 billion people are all living agreement to maintain well and within the boundaries compliance with antitrust laws of our planet, by 2050. www.proforest.net www.wbcsd.org

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