Soft Commodities Forum
Welcome to this inaugural edition of the Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) quarterly newsletter, created to update our stakeholders on SCF progress highlights.
Tag: Agriculture and Food
Food Action Alliance selects the Farmer First Clusters as a flagship initiative
Leia em português – Food Action Alliance seleciona Produtores em Foco como uma iniciativa de destaque The Food Action Alliance, a multi-stakeholder platform hosted by the World Economic Forum with 35 partner institutions, has identified the Soft Commodities Forum’s Farmer First Clusters as one of its flagship initiatives for advancing national food systems strategies. The Farmer First Clusters joins a portfolio […]
Indirect supplier engagements in the global push for traceable deforestation- and conversion-free product
Traceability of member companies’ soy supply chains to the farm level is a key priority to assure deforestation- and conversion-free (DCF) soy production in the Cerrado and beyond. Leia em português – Engajamento de fornecedores indiretos quanto à pressão global por produtos rastreáveis livres de desmatamento e conversão What progress has the SCF made toward achieving traceability? […]
Lindsey Larson, World Bank, weighs in on land use
Private Sector Lead for the Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Impact Program at the World Bank, Lindsey Larson, outlines financing avenues to protect nature and improve the livelihoods of land users. Leia em português – Lucie Smith entrevista Lindsey Larson, do Banco Mundial Q: What does the World Bank see as its role in supporting landscape […]
Soft Commodities Forum and Consumer Goods Forum Forest Positive Coalition align on landscape metrics
Leia em português – SCF e Forest Positive Coalition do Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) alinham métricas de paisagem At the Soft Commodities Forum, we believe that achieving meaningful landscape-level transformation and acquiring the financing to get there require collaboration across food and agriculture value chains for standardized metrics. Collaboration as an entire industry enables increased impact by […]
The Farmer First Clusters partners with the Forest Investor Club for scalability
Leia em português – Parceria do Produtores em Foco com o Forest Investor Club para escalabilidade The SCF is thrilled to announce a partnership with the Forest Investor Club in our journey toward implementing the landscape transformation goals of the Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C. Clear business incentives to invest in forest-positive land use, such as this partnership, are imperative […]
Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition
The High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE – FSN) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the United Nations body for assessing the science related to world food security and nutrition, published a report titled “Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition” in June 2023.
Global soy exporters adopt new measures to eliminate deforestation and native vegetation conversion in Brazil’s Cerrado region
Exporters disclose their soy volumes free of deforestation and Cerrado grassland conversion Cerrado Region, Brazil 21 June 2022 – Six of the world’s largest food and agribusiness companies have developed a new method to disclose deforestation- and conversion-free soy purchases from Brazil’s biodiversity-rich Cerrado region, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) announced today. This is one of many […]
Indigo Ag’s Proven Scope 3 Solution on Track to Double Its Impact in 2024
Indigo Ag is using its proprietary measurement, reporting and verification capabilities to help consumer goods companies measure and reduce their Scope 3 emissions and water use through their agricultural supply chain.
Roadmaps to nature-positive: what’s next for agri-food companies?
This insights piece is part of a series presenting diverse perspectives on nature-positive business approaches.