Resource Type: Case Study

Since 2014, Touton has operated in the Juabeso-Bia landscape in the Western region of Ghana, considered to be one of the deforestation hotspot intervention areas (HIA) for the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFRP).

Philip Morris International in partnership with its third party leaf suppliers, is working in six contiguous Districts in Central and Northern Malawi to minimize the risk of deforestation where the Flue-Cured Virginia tobacco that the company sources is cured entirely with firewood.

Aviv Tanzania Limited, a subsidiary of Olam International, has operated a 1,012-hectare plantation of irrigated Arabica coffee in the Upper Ruvuma River basin in Songea since July 2011.

Since 2005 New Forests (NF) has managed a portfolio of sustainable timber plantations, rural land, and conservation investments related to ecosystem restoration and protection.

Golden Agri-Resources is among the world’s largest palm oil producers with a total planted area of 500,000 hectares across 45 plantations in Sumatra and Kalimantan.

Agricultural lands occupy almost half of the world’s land surface and a further expansion is projected to feed a global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050.

The Gulf of Mexico dead zone, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, is one of the largest dead zones in the world, covering approximately 5,500 square miles.

Restorasi Ekosistem Riau was established by APRIL Group in 2013 as an ecosystem restoration program to protect, restore, conserve and manage 150,000 hectares of ecologically important peatland forest.