At Proforest we’re passionate about helping people produce and source agricultural and forest commodities responsibly. That’s why we support companies throughout supply chains to have positive social and environmental outcomes for people, nature and climate in the places where commodities are produced.​

Our work is based on three key principles: 

• The need to contribute to the transformation of agriculture and forestry sectors to more sustainable practices
• The need to support a just transition
• The need to ensure the best use of resources, which are always finite

To drive real change, we believe that companies and other stakeholders need to take action both within and beyond their supply chains.

We support this in three ways:​

Within Supply Chains: Responsible Production and Sourcing
Through our consultancy work we help companies to work with their suppliers to implement responsible sourcing and production practices, across a broad range of agricultural commodities and forest products.

Global / Industry Collaboration and Engagement
We build capacity and facilitate multistakeholder platforms and collaborations between companies, NGOs, governments and civil society.

Beyond Supply Chains: Landscape Initiatives​
We work at a landscape level to bring stakeholders together to collectively address systemic issues at scale in the places where commodities are grown.

Steps to Engaging in Landscape Initiatives

• We can help to build a business case for investment in landscape initiatives, to understand their supply base and identify priority landscapes.
• We help companies identify the key issues and long-term impact needed, to look at the scale of investment needed, and whether to get involved with existing initiatives, or think about their own, or a collaborative approach.
• We can provide baseline assessments and analysis, and bring together different stakeholders within a landscape to help companies align their activities and interventions to have a bigger impact.
• We are also working with companies to understand how to monitor, measure and report actions and impact from landscape programmes, and how to ensure the local ownership and long-term viability of any landscape initiative.