The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) enables collaboration between six leading agribusinesses to identify solutions to eliminate deforestation and conversion in soy landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado. The Cerrado is one of Earth’s most biodiverse savannahs and home to 5% of the planet’s animals and plants. By working in partnership with producers, consumer goods companies, civil […]
Leia em português – Perspectivas do Produtor: Os desafios da agricultura sustentável no Cerrado do Oeste da Bahia
The Soft Commodities Forum is pleased to announce its implementing partners for its flagship Farmer First Clusters initiative, which encourages forest-positive land use management for agricultural commodity production.
In this interview André Guimarães, provides a historical and legal context of Brazil’s agricultural system and explains the role that incentives can play in addressing unsustainable land use practices.
Welcome to this inaugural edition of the Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) quarterly newsletter, created to update our stakeholders on SCF progress highlights.
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]