The Commodities and Forests Agenda 2020: Ten Priorities to Remove Tropical Deforestation from Commodity Supply Chains is intended to serve as a framework for action at the global and regional level in order to accelerate progress in addressing commodity-driven deforestation. It summarizes the areas in which most urgent action is needed to eliminate deforestation from global agricultural supply chains. By proposing a shared set of priorities, the Commodities and Forests Agenda 2020 aims to improve collaboration and coordination among stakeholders to address commodity-driven deforestation.
Forest business incubation is a support process that accelerates the successful development of sustainable businesses in forest landscapes. There is much to develop. The aggregate gross annual value from smallholder producers within forest landscapes may be as much as US$1.3 trillion.
The past decade has seen a rapid expansion in the development of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) to address key sustainability issues for commodity supply chains.