Year two: highlights from the Good Growth Partnership
It's been two years since the launch of the Good Growth Partnership. Learn more about the impacts and progress we have made so far.
FoKSBI in Videos: Reducing the Impacts of Indonesia’s Palm Oil Sector
A look into the work of Indonesia's Sustainable Palm Oil Platform (FoKSBI) through a video series.
What Works? We Need To Know
ISEAL launched Evidensia, a new website that helps people access and interpret credible research on the sustainability impacts and effectiveness of supply chain initiatives and tools.
President of Peru Unites Local and International Changemakers to Save Tropical Forests
Peru has strengthened its credentials as one of Latin America’s most sustainable countries by becoming the first nation to host the UNDP-led Good Growth Conference, which started in Lima on Monday and continued into the Amazon this week.
The role of financial institutions in the future of sustainable commodities
The Good Growth Partnership convened in a workshop in Geneva funders of agricultural commodity supply chains and major producers and buyers to identify opportunities for scaling up finance for sustainable agricultural commodity production.
FIELD TRIP: Visit the beautiful flooding savannah and gallery forest on “Los Llanos”
Field trip participants will travel from Tena— the gateway of the Amazon —to Rukullakta where they will have the rare opportunity to be welcomed by the Kichwa people.
FIELD TRIP: Protecting Peru’s Alto Mayo Forest
Highlights include a visit to the village of Nueva Zelandia located inside the Alto Mayo Protected Forest where participants will be greeted by the Shampuyacu native community.
Sustainable Palm Oil planning moves from National to District impact in Indonesia
The government and palm oil stakeholders in Sintang, West Kalimantan have worked in collaboration to legalise the Sintang District Action Plan (DAP) on Sustainable Palm Oil.
FIELD TRIP: Observe a landscape approach in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Field trip participants will travel from Tena— the gateway of the Amazon —to Rukullakta where they will have the rare opportunity to be welcomed by the Kichwa people.
[The GEF] How finance can reduce deforestation
Paul Hartman acknowledges in this blog the connection between agriculture and tropical deforestation and the key role of the financial sector in removing deforestation from commodity supply chains.