Forest Data Partnership: The Traceability and Transparency Tipping Point: Transforming Agricultural Supply Chains
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This webinar unpacks findings from the Traceability and Transparency in Supply Chains report, explore priority action areas for closing key gaps, and showcase collaborative approaches to advancing traceability and transparency.
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Forest Data Partnership: The Traceability and Transparency Tipping Point: Transforming Agricultural Supply Chains
- 1. The Traceability and Transparency Tipping Point: Transforming Agricultural Supply Chains
- 2. AGENDA • Key findings from report • Keynote • Panel discussion • Audience Q&A
- 4. OBJECTIVES OF REPORT • Provide an updated evidence base on traceability and transparency in commodity value chains • Assess lessons for different stakeholders and direction of travel • Scope: Cattle, palm oil, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and wood
- 5. DRIVERS Growing number of pledges & actions – all require traceability and transparency to implement and report It’s not a new phenomenon!
- 6. WHAT DO TRACEABILITY & TRANSPARENCY MEAN TO YOU?
- 7. IT’S COMPLEX… Source: Adapted from AAK, "AAK's Value Chain", All about better sourcing of palm, https://www.aak.com/contentassets/3a2ef8f179cd4c99a9e144a1fcdf62f7/aak-placein-the- value-chain---palm-2021-v2.jpg and Proforest, “Soy Traceability and Supply Chain Transparency,” Soy Toolkit Briefing Note 02.A, https://static1.squarespace.com/ static/5b48c2572487fdd7f1f29d1c/t/6107e38471685d416f2cd05d/1627906949303/ENG+BN2A_05July2021.pdf.
- 8. IT’S COMPLEX… Source: Adapted from AAK, "AAK's Value Chain", All about better sourcing of palm, https://www.aak.com/contentassets/3a2ef8f179cd4c99a9e144a1fcdf62f7/aak-placein-the- value-chain---palm-2021-v2.jpg and Proforest, “Soy Traceability and Supply Chain Transparency,” Soy Toolkit Briefing Note 02.A, https://static1.squarespace.com/ static/5b48c2572487fdd7f1f29d1c/t/6107e38471685d416f2cd05d/1627906949303/ENG+BN2A_05July2021.pdf. Commodity flow Information flow
- 9. The nature of global commodity trade presents huge challenges for passing on information from the point of origin
- 10. RESEARCH PROCESS Literature Review Interviews Case Studies Mapping of Tools and Initiatives
- 11. TOOLS AND INITIATIVES Figure source: Analysis by authors
- 12. CASE STUDIES Type of Initiative Commodity/ Geography Top-down and bottom-up initiatives Cattle in South America Smallholder mapping Palm oil in Southeast Asia Mandatory government systems and voluntary certification Timber in the Republic of the Congo Collaborative and innovative approaches Soy in Brazil Multistakeholder collaboration Cocoa in Ghana
- 13. SUCCESS FACTORS Public funding and civil society involvement in design and management Beneficial regulatory environment Shared goals and trust Equitable cost sharing Data is accessible, metrics are comparable
- 14. ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY Monitoring action to ensure accountability Supporting consistent objectives and reporting Providing technical expertise and social understanding
- 15. ROLE OF PRIVATE SECTOR Pursuing equitable solutions to costs incurred by increasing traceability and transparency Taking measures to address specific challenges facing smallholders and SMEs With other stakeholders, support credible, consistent, comparable data sharing and disclosure
- 16. ROLE OF PUBLIC SECTOR Collaboration on consistent, cohesive data ask Creation of supportive policy environment Provision of funds, guided by existing success stories National systems to ‘raise the floor’
- 17. DIRECTION OF TRAVEL & INNOVATION Data or technology should not limit the objectives or ambition (investment in continued innovation is key) Greater value being drawn from openly accessible datasets Increased reliance on remote sensing – though gaps remain, these are being filled Expanding efforts to engage with new audiences and work with smallholders
- 18. SUMMARY • State of action lags behind what current information availability makes possible • Total visibility of supply chains is not always required to meet sustainability goals • Opportunities exist for all stakeholders in data sharing • There is no one-size-fits-all approach
- 19. KEYNOTE Roselyn Fosuah Adjei Director, Climate Change Forestry Commission of Ghana
- 20. PANEL DISCUSSION Moderator: Till Neeff, Consultant, FAO Brad Clark, Joint Head of Sustainable Commodities, U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Toby Gardner, Director, Trase Martin Huxtable, Global Sustainable Sourcing Director, Unilever Juan Pablo Solís Víquez, Senior Advisor Climate and the Environment, Fairtrade International
- 21. THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- T&T not new T&T designed to meet a specific need, a requirement, whether voluntary, mandatory, public, private sector or civil society It’s the speed, scale of last 10 years Don’t be limited by what can do today, set the objective and then find a solution
- Means dif things to dif people in dif uses Traceability – the ability of an actor to link a product or unit of material with information about its history of locations, owners, and transformations between points in the supply chain such as from production site to end user. The information associated with commodities also includes sustainability aspects at the production site, notably forest loss. Transparency - the making available of information by any stakeholder. The information that is made available often relates to the traceability of commodities, but can include broader information that is relevant and useful in the context of halting and reversing forest loss such as sustainability policies and practices, commitments, land use information, monitoring, or outstanding grievances. There can be different levels of transparency, ranging from information sharing within an organization or among peer companies, to sharing with specific stakeholders, to sharing publicly
- Means dif things to dif people in dif uses Traceability – the ability of an actor to link a product or unit of material with information about its history of locations, owners, and transformations between points in the supply chain such as from production site to end user. The information associated with commodities also includes sustainability aspects at the production site, notably forest loss. Transparency - the making available of information by any stakeholder. The information that is made available often relates to the traceability of commodities, but can include broader information that is relevant and useful in the context of halting and reversing forest loss such as sustainability policies and practices, commitments, land use information, monitoring, or outstanding grievances. There can be different levels of transparency, ranging from information sharing within an organization or among peer companies, to sharing with specific stakeholders, to sharing publicly
- It’s very difficult, very time consuming and resource intensive to map out and understand all of the relationships in supply chains. A supply chain actor will have to go through lots of intermediaries to get to information about the production area and relationships in supply chain will shift from year to year. It’s hard to get to information from parts of the supply chain that are distant from them, and there may be parts of the supply chain where there is low information availability for any stakeholder. It is also important for information to be available to stakeholders that are outside of supply chains, like regulators, finance, governments and civil society.
- This creates challenges for passing on information on commodity characteristics from the point of origin
- Literature review 120+ reports and articles reviewed Interviews 71 total interviewees, across private sector, public sector and civil society Case studies 5 case studies, focussing on different commodities and different questions Mapping of tools and initiatives 90+ mapped, examining the function and funding of them, to explore what information is being sought by which parties
- [Position of individual tool/initiatives is indicative, they’re provided as examples, there’s no quantitative assessment or rating behind their positions] Broad range of aims and functions of tools and initiatives, reflective of the range of different local production contexts, industry norms, and policy environments.
- Identified successful efforts ‘Local factors’ includes politics (local, sub-national, national), physical properties
- Clear scope and corresponding metrics of success enable targeted initiatives that can be evaluated. T
- Private sector actors are often the primary actors in increasing traceability in commodity supply chains, and should continue to increase levels of traceability, as companies are increasingly starting to do so for the sake of supply chain resilience and efficiency. Major barriers are cost and lack of data sharing. Private sector actors can find equitable ways to fund changes, and credible ways to share data while respective privacy, commercial sensitivity, and anti-trust.
- Govt roles – not just funding, eg data availability, enabling frameworks, clear consistent policy, empowering and supporting action by all. Producing
- A T&T system is designed to meet an end goal of its user whether to meet a commitment or regulation, or to be used as part of monitoring and reporting by third parties.