On October 13, 2022, at the Plant the Future Dinner, of the Dutch Food Week in The Hague (Netherlands), IUCN NL presented a Guide for vegan product producers, for which AidEnvironment prepared all factsheets and value chain analyses. The Guide is meant to support vegan producers with understanding social and environmental risks linked to 16 selected commodities utilized in the […]
Voluntary standards and other sustainability systems are good for people and planet. An ever-growing library of studies provides evidence of standards driving positive impacts – from improving labour practices and boosting smallholder incomes to increasing biodiversity and tree cover. But are they good for business? Ultimately, most companies will only invest in using sustainability systems if there’s a compelling business case. […]
Your dose of sustainable solutions As another quarter comes to a close, our team continues to work with partners around the globe collecting data, developing strategies for sustainable sector transformation, and putting these strategies into action on the ground. From Indonesia to Uganda, we’re excited to share the latest updates in our September Newsletter. If you are working on similar […]
Indonesia remains the deforestation hotspot in the region according to an analysis conducted by AidEnvironment of the oil palm concession companies in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea with the most deforestation in the first six months of 2022. The top ten concessions collectively contributed to 8,100 hectares of deforestation and these ten concessions are all located in Indonesia. Two […]
On Tuesday 13 September, the European Parliament voted on a series of measures to create a EU Deforestation Regulation that would effectively tackle deforestation in the global supply chains of products sold in the EU. A substantial majority of MEPs voted in favour of introduced amendments. Most significantly, these changes include: Recognition of the role of the financial sector in […]
This past August, the AidEnvironment team returned to India to visit areas under the Green Transformation Project (GTP) in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. Junior expert on land and water management, Marina Gutiérrez, together with Ruben Borges, an external consultant for the GTP project who specializes in soil fertility, conducted a two-week scoping mission, visiting different project areas in which regenerative […]
Cargill and Bunge, the world’s two largest traders of Brazilian soy, are linked to a farm in Brazil connected to human rights violations of traditional communities. Figure 1: Brazilian contested farm Brasília do Sul with nearby facilities of Cargill and Bunge Source: AidEnvironment, based on INCRA, Sicarm 2022, Funai 2020. Note that ADM was not mentioned in the investigative research. Earthsight and […]
Recent analysis by AidEnvironment identified the ten largest deforesters for industrial timber in Indonesia in the second quarter of 2022. Collectively, these ten concessions cleared 7,000 ha of forest, peat and peat forest between April and June 2022. Four out of five biggest deforesters in the first quarter of this year also appear in this period’s list. The ten largest […]
Article by Kikundwa Anne People are “constantly cutting down trees,” says Mr. Kissa Charles, who is part of the Green Future Farming (GFF) Project in Kapchorwa District, Uganda. He also remarks that “they have nowhere else to get firewood.” As a demonstration farmer, Mr. Charles’ farm hosts technologies and best practices promoted by the GFF project. Initiatives under the GFF […]
