The EU Deforestation Regulation Is Already Delivering Results – Why further weakening during the Simplification Review risks undermining progress in global forest governance

A policy brief by Dr. Metodi Sotirov, published by the Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH). Key Messages for EU Decision-Makers • Even before full implementation, the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is already…

EU Deforestation Regulation: Early responses in producer countries

Actors in producer countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America are taking steps to align with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), strengthening traceability systems, reviewing legal frameworks, and supporting smallholder…

Gender Equity and Social Inclusion + Intersectionality (GESI+) for Deforestation-free Value Chains: Training of Trainers (TOT) Facilitation Toolkit

This ToT supports cooperating partners in government, civil society, and the private sector as they work toward fair and just transitions to deforestation-free value chains….

Gender Equity, Social Inclusion and Intersectionality (GESI+) in Sustainable and Deforestation-free Agriculture. Lessons from Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Women and IPLCs play a vital role in cocoa production, yet face exclusion due to a lack of land tenure security, limited access to resources, credit, and training, and underrepresentation…

Gender Equity, Social Inclusion and Intersectionality (GESI+) in Sustainable and Deforestation-free Agriculture. Lessons from Coca, Orellana, Ecuador

The EUDR creates a dual scenario for Amazonian cocoa and coffee: it can strengthen traceability, legality and territorial sustainability; but it may also deepen gender, territorial and economic inequalities if…

Aligning opportunities toward deforestation-free and socially responsible products

This information brief presents the results of a desk study validated across three countries and applied in a Training of Trainers (ToT) on the gendered and social dimensions of EUDR….

Summary report: Support to Indonesia’s EUDR Preparedness Through Electronic Smallholder Registration (e-STDB) Acceleration

This document provides a summary of the works done by the World Resources Institute Indonesia (WRI) with funding from GIZ on behalf of the European Union and the German Federal…

The Beijing-Brasília effect: A new paradigm for sustainable commodity trade?

Brazil and China have the opportunity to use their powerful trade alliance to ensure future food security and economic stability by curbing deforestation and reducing climate change….

EUDR supply chain infographics (3rd edition)

Understanding your position in beef, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy and wood supply chains The EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, hereinafter referred to as ‘the Regulation’,…

Guidelines for Harmonised VHR-Based Data Collection for GeoAI Applications in Perennial Crop Mapping for Historical Reference Years

This document provides methodological guidance for the collection of high-quality reference data through visual interpretation of very high resolution (VHR) imagery to support supervised classification of remotely sensed data for…

Supporting EUDR Compliance Through Regional Sustainability Standards

Insights from the African Organization for Standardisation agriculture and forestry standards The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires products like cocoa and coffee to be legal and deforestation-free, presenting a…

Understanding the First Mile: strategies and tools for first mile inclusion in traceability and due diligence systems

SUMMARY OF THE FIRST MILE SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE COCOA, COFFEE, PALM OIL AND RUBBER SECTORS The first mile, the journey from production farm to the first aggregation or processing…

Can a ‘Beijing-Brasília effect’ help end deforestation?

Brazil and China have the opportunity to use their powerful trade alliance to ensure future food security and economic stability by curbing deforestation and reducing climate change, according to a…

Telecoupling of governance systems under the EU deforestation regulation: Scenarios for the Brazilian beef and soy value chains

Commodity imports by the European Union (EU) are an important driver of land use change in agricultural producer countries. The new EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) encompasses seven relevant commodities that…

Financing opportunities for cocoa processing in Côte d’Ivoire

Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s leading producer and processor of cocoa beans. Its processing capacity now surpasses that of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which until recently had held the…

Supporting Development Finance Institutions Financing Private Agrifood Investments

Since 1964, the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has helped design and implement investment projects to reduce poverty, hunger and malnutrition and…

GUIDE RAPIDE – Intégrer la sécurisation foncière inclusive dans les programmes de durabilité du secteur du cacao

This quick guide is intended for businesses, cooperatives, and lead trainers in cooperatives and community groups within the cocoa industry. It introduces rural land tenure security and aims to help…

Liberia: West Africa’s future cocoa El Dorado Characteristics and journey of a bitter chocolate

This independent monitoring report is the result of field data collection and documentary analysis. IDEF, hereinafter referred to as “the observer”, used resources gathered during previous field missions in Liberia…

Creating a Platform for collecting and visualising social and human rights impacts: Lessons from Brazil

Deforestation impacts more than forests and wildlife: it is a multifaceted problem that has human rights impacts and dispossesses Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and family farmers (PCTAFs) of the lands…

Women, the Backbone of Cocoa Production in Cameroon – How the EUDR could support this essential, invisible, and exploited workforce

This document is the result of a field study conducted in ten localities in three regions of Cameroon to look at the place of women—including Indigenous women—in the cocoa sector….