Altamira Summit 2025: Together for a Deforestation-Free Future

Global deforestation continues to accelerate, threatening the climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods worldwide. To address these challenges and promote sustainable solutions, the Altamira Summit will take place from 3 to 7 November 2025 in Altamira Pará, Brazil. Recognized as an official Pre-COP 30 event, the Summit provides a platform for cross-border exchange, practical learning, and reflection on sustainable transitions towards deforestation-free value chains. The event is organized by the Hub of the Team Europe Initiative on Deforestation-Free Value Chains and supported by the local government of Altamira.

Alongside participants from 26 different nations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe, representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA), including the Secretary of Innovation, Sustainable Development, Irrigation and Cooperativism, the EU Commission, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) will join the event to highlight the shared commitment of governments and international partners in advancing cross-regional and cross-sectoral cooperation and to contributing to a constructive international environmental agenda.

The program will combine interactive workshops, policy dialogues, and field visits to local cocoa and cattle producers, demonstrating how national and international sustainability, legality, and traceability requirements can be met in practice. Technical sessions will provide space for in-depth exchange on regulatory frameworks, implementation strategies, and solutions to address specific challenges faced by smallholders and producing countries.

By bringing together stakeholders from the public and private sectors, civil society, and academia, the Altamira Summit will underline the importance of aligning global cooperation with local realities. It will provide an opportunity to deepen partnerships and to support the transition toward deforestation-free value chains – from the Amazon to the world.

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03/11/2025

- 07/11/2025

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COP30 - TEI High-Level Side-Event
19 November 2025

Building partnerships and solutions for deforestation-free value chains. Join us to discover how the Team Europe Initiative (TEI) on Deforestation-Free Value Chains is turning commitments into concrete actions for deforestation-free production.

Altamira Summit
03.-07.11. 2025

From 3 to 7 November 2025, TEI flagships and their project partners from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe will gather in Altamira, Pará, Brazil, to foster dialogue, knowledge transfer, and networking among regions, sectors, and initiatives. The aim is to learn from each other and collaborate on deforestation-free value chains.

Eurotrip for Asian Partners
20.04.-24.04.2026

The trip will facilitate an exchange between EUDR implementing partners from African countries and key European stakeholders involved in the operationalisation of the EU-Regulation to clarify questions and build mutual understanding and partnerships.

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

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

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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

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Huánuco, Ucayali, Pasco and Junín

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

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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

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Ngozi and Kayanza

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Smallholders

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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:

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

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Smallholder farmers, women, youth, and indigenous peoples

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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:

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(Lower) Kafue Catchment Ecosystem

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Farmers and community forest management groups

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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:

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Lampung, West Kalimantan, and Central Sulawesi

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

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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:

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Son La, Gia Lai

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Smallholder farmers and marginalized groups

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Support coffee value chain actors
Foster deforestation-free, sustainable, and legal supply chains

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

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