Building an evidence-base for deforestation-free landscapes: supporting equitable outcomes in and beyond commodity supply-chains
Research Project, 2023 – 2026

Through commodity-driven deforestation, global food systems are major contributors to climate change and biodiversity loss. While recent years have seen a groundswell of commitments from companies, finance actors and governments to sever the link between food supply-chains and deforestation, commodity-driven tropical deforestation remains stubbornly high.
To help build knowledge to reverse this trend, this project will engage public and private sector decision makers, practitioners, and local stakeholders to co-create a robust analytical framework for assessing the effectiveness and equity of policies to halt commodity-driven deforestation. This framework will rest on clearly defined theories of change which elucidate causal mechanisms, enabling factors and barriers for policies to reduce deforestation. We will analyze a broad range of strategies for promoting deforestation-free supply-chains—from interventions aiming to reduce or shift demand to initiatives targeting supply-chain actors—aiming to develop a framework that allows assessment across sustainability domains: environmental, social and economic. Finally, drawing upon state-of-the-art data and methods, the analytical framework will be used to evaluate existing supply-chains initiatives for key commodities and countries—palm oil in Indonesia, cocoa in Cameroon, and soy or beef in Brazil—providing an informed portfolio of policy options for promoting deforestation-free commodity landscapes.

Participants

Martin Persson (contact)

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory

Mairon G. Bastos Lima

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory

Funding

Formas

Project ID: 2022-02563
Funding Chalmers participation during 2023–2026

Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure

Sustainable development

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Latest update

2023-03-08