They say that nations and corporations need to speed up the process of decoupling deforestation from commodity supply chains like beef, palm oil, rubber and wood.
Sceptics also claim that REDD ignores some causes of deforestation, like the demand for soy, beef, palm oil, and timber which tempts people to act illegally.But things are changing on that front.
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The challenges that Hainan rubber plantation farmers face in terms of relying on single crops are magnified at a global scale, where monocultures, such as soy, beef and palm oil, drive the vast majority of the global food market.
The rapid expansion of the production of agricultural commodities such as beef, cocoa, palm oil, rubber and soybean is associated with high rates of deforestation in tropical forest landscapes.
Due diligence measures were needed across supply chains to source the origin of high-risk commodities including soya, beef and palm oil before they were exported to Europe, she argued.
When companies are looking under the hood of their business – the supply chain – they're seeing clear risks and impacts from the production of commodities like timber, soy, beef and palm oil.
Just like other major drivers of deforestation — beef, mahogany, palm oil — the problem has a solution: if we just cut out the market for the product, the destruction would stop.
Through the Consumer Goods Forum, for example, 20 of the world's largest companies — including Unilever, Coca-Cola and Walmart — have committed to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains, buying only beef, soy, palm oil, timber and paper that are produced without destroying forest.
But if companies work together and say 'we only want sustainably sourced soy, beef or palm oil,' that sends an enormous signal to governments to start acting.
Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and timber is strong domestically, in the world's rich north and ― increasingly ― in emerging economies such as India and China.
