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11. Palm Oil Key Performance Indicators Coalition 60
CERES and Packard 12. Sustainable Landscapes Rating Tool CCBA
62 13. Resource Trade Database and Embodied Environmental Impacts
64 Chatham House
14. Rural Horizons Solidaridad 66
15. Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit ZSL 68
7. Annex 2 – Supply Chain Transparency Enabling 70
Organizations and Initiatives
1. Food Fw 70
2. Geotraceability 71
3. Imaflora 72
4. ProForest’s Responsible Sourcing Approach 74
5. The Forest Trust 76
6. Transitions 78
7. Rainforest Alliance 80
8. Annex 3 – Minutes from past 83
Supply Chain Transparency Network meetings
1. Navigating Supply Chain Transparency Initiatives, Oxford, 84
April 13-14th 2016 2. Beyond piecemeal traceability: Evaluating the impacts of
87 agricultural supply chain actors at scale, Barcelona,
September 27-28th 2016 3. Supply Chain Transparency Network Meeting, Marrakesh,
100 November 7-8th 2016.
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Background
Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented rise in commitments by private and pub- lic actors to bring a halt to the widespread deforestation and environmental degradation
associated with agricultural expansion across the tropics. To help address this challenge many organizations have stepped forward and contributed to the development of new
and rapidly evolving supply chain information platforms, decision support processes and research initiatives.
These diverse initiatives have improved our understanding of how supply chains function, helped identify the environmental and social risks associated with different commodities
and regions of production, and have contributed towards the development of more robust approaches to assessing the performance of different supply chain actors. Last but not
least, it has also helped identify opportunities for positive action.
But in order to maximize the impact of these individual initiatives, it is vital that we take stock of the advances, opportunities and barriers identified to date, to better connect and
align complementary initiatives and build potential synergies.
Ultimately, we believe that effective assessment and monitoring of the performance of both places and actors is vital to realizing a deforestation-free economy can only be
achieved by working together more effectively to:
• enable interconnectivity, sharing and synthesis of existing data sets and insights • identify and collaboratively address the significant information and knowledge gaps
that remain • make actionable information accessible to relevant supply chain actors to foster the
delivery of positive outcomes Achieving this requires the development of a stronger community of practice of orga-
nizations working to enhance supply chain transparency. This can facilitate knowledge exchange and help fast track the use of this information and interconnectivity between
emerging platforms to improve the governance of commodity supply chains across the tropics.
This report has two objectives. First, to describe the supply chain transparency landscape by synthesizing initiatives’ commodity and geographical coverage, data sources, target
audiences and outputs. Initiatives are also described individually in Annex 1. The second objective is to identify ways by which our collective work could be brought together more
work effectively in order to accelerate impact.
1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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The supply chain transparency landscape
The desire for greater supply chain transparency has fueled a diverse range of initiatives and organizations. In this report we divide the work to date between:
1. Dedicated supply chain information platforms or systems that encompass work by
