Altamira Summit – Event Report

The Altamira Summit was a global outreach event under the framework of the Team Europe Initiative on Deforestation-Free Value Chains, held between November 3rd and 7th, 2025, in Altamira, Pará, Brazil. It brought together 120 participants from public, private, civil society and academic sectors from 25 countries for a week of global learning on sustainable, deforestation-free value chains.

Among the 23 countries represented at the event were: Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Democratic Republic of Congo, Spain, Uganda, Uruguay, Vietnam, and Zambia.

It was planned and organized by the Zero Deforestation Hub – the secretariat of the Team Europe Initiative (TEI) on Deforestation-Free Value Chains – and the Sustainable Agriculture for Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) project – flagship of the TEI -, with support from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) and the Municipality of Altamira.

The official Pre-COP30 event took place a week prior to the global climate negotiations in Belém, and was a strategic forum for dialogue, knowledge exchange, and cross-regional collaboration to advance sustainable agriculture and eff orts to decoupling deforestation from agricultural commodities.

This technical report is the documentation product of the Altamira Summit. The document presents all the technical input presented during the sessions, main aspects discussed in working groups and panel discussions, the objectives and key highlights of each session.
You can access the full report via the download button or have a look at the Executive Summary.
For more (visual) impressions of the Altamira Summit, please visit the external link.

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Region:

Luwero, Nakaseke, Kassanda, Mubende, Bukomansimbi, Kyotera, Omoro, and Nwoya

Target group:

Smallholder farmers, traders, state and non state actors, and processors

Key activities:
  • Capacity building of smallholder coffee farmers in production practices and sustainable land use management.
  • Establishing traceability system and facilitating access to sustainable financing 
  • Facilitate inclusive business partnerships between producer organizations and supply chain actors​ 
  • Promote multi-stakeholder cooperation​ 
Commodities:
Region:

Huánuco, Ucayali, Pasco and Junín

Target group:

Public and private stakeholders, especially exporting companies, cooperatives and smallholder producers

Key activities:
  • Strengthen the supply chains to meet EUDR requirements 
  • Facilitate access to sustainable finance and knowledge exchange
  • Training of smallholders to sustainable manage their production systems 
Commodities:
Region:

Ngozi and Kayanza 

Target group:

Smallholders

Key activities:
  • Training on the use of traceability tools and support on collection of geolocation data for EUDR compliance 
  • Support the development of a national coffee sector dashboard for traceability and transparency
  • Capacity building of smallholder coffee farmers in production practices and sustainable land use management.​ 
Commodities:
Region:

Centre, South West, Littoral, South, East and West regions

Target group:

Smallholder farmers, women, youth, and indigenous peoples

Key activities:
  • Develop inclusive business partnerships with the private sector 
  • Facilitate access to finance for sustainable business models 
  • Support and train farmers in open-source traceability systems 
  • Promote multistakeholder dialogues to improve legal and regulatory provisions 
Commodities:
Region:

(Lower) Kafue Catchment Ecosystem

Target group:

Farmers and community forest management groups

Key activities:
  • Support community forest management groups in the
    sustainable management of natural resources and livelihood creation
  • Support farmers to produce soy in line with the EUDR and increase productivity, and implement transparency and traceability pilots
Commodities:
Region:

Lampung, West Kalimantan, and Central Sulawesi

Target group:

Smallholder farmers, private sector, and civil society organizations along the value chains

Key activities:
  • Empowering Smallholder Farmers and Farmer Organizations by facilitating traceability and legality, building capacity on Good Agriculture Practices (GAP), and strengthening farmer organizations, ensuring inclusive support for both men and women farmers.
  • Promoting sustainable practices and collaboration by supporting village HCV/HCS conservation efforts, testing and strengthening the National Dashboard for traceability and legality, and fostering national and regional exchanges.
Commodities:
Region:

Son La, Gia Lai ​​

Target group:

Smallholder farmers and marginalized groups

Key activities:
  • Support coffee value chain actors
  • Foster deforestation-free, sustainable, and legal supply chains
Commodities:
Region:

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve, Salonga National Park North, Salonga National Park South, Virunga National Park, Kahuzi-Biéga National Park​

Target group:

Public and private sector

Key activities:
  • Promote sustainable agricultural practices
  • Minimize forest degradation
  • Prevent deforestation
Commodities:
Region:

Provinces of Orellana and Sucumbíos

Target group:

Smallholder farmers, women, indigenous people and youth

Key activities:
  • Promoting Multi Stakeholder Dialogues
  • Improving traceabilty systems
Commodities:
Region:

Xingu territory, State of Pará

Target group:

Family farmers

Key activities:
  • Improve market access, value creation, and access to sustainable finance
  • Integrate farmers into traceability systems
Commodities:
Global activities