This document summarizes a conference on shaping agricultural supply chains to help people and landscapes prosper. It discusses how the Rainforest Alliance is working with communities in Mexico and Guatemala to lead sustainable practices by empowering community leaders. It also examines challenges and opportunities of taking a jurisdictional approach to certification across entire regions. Finally, it proposes a Landscape Standard framework to drive environmental, social, and economic sustainability in productive landscapes through principles like biodiversity protection, ecosystem services, and human well-being.

1. Shaping agricultural supply
chains to help people and
landscapes prosper
Global Landscapes Forum, Bonn
December 2018

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Nigel Sizer, Chief
Programs Officer at
the Rainforest
Alliance
JOINING FORCES FOR A BETTER FUTURE

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Letting the
community lead:
Lessons from Mexico
and Guatemala
JOINING FORCES FOR A BETTER FUTURE
José Román Carrera,
Director Partnerships Latin
America at the Rainforest
Alliance
Gladys García, Community
Leader from Mexico,
Rainforest Alliance partner
in DGM
Erika Rodriguez, Capacity
Building Specialist for DGM
at the Rainforest Alliance

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Taking the
jurisdictional route:
Challenges and
opportunities
JOINING FORCES FOR A BETTER FUTURE
Andreas Brede, Advisor to
Sustainable Value Chains
and Standards program at
GIZ
Daan Wensing, Program
Director Landscapes and
Deforestation
Commodities at IDH

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Standards and
innovation: Where
supply chains and
landscapes meet
JOINING FORCES FOR A BETTER FUTURE
Joanna Durbin, Director at
the Climate, Community
and Biodiversity Alliance
Lenneke Braam, Director
Standards and Assurance
at the Rainforest Alliance

6. Landscape Standard (LS)
A global framework to drive environmental, social and economic
sustainability in productive landscapes

7. Pillars Principles Criteria Indicators (examples)
Environmental
Ecosystems Conversion
Restoration
Degradation
Deforestation/peatland conversion rate
Restoration rate by Bonn barometer categories
Ratio restored/converted land (LDN principle)
Biodiversity Habitat
Species
Biodiversity Return on Investment Metric
Rate of conversion of habitats in protected areas/KBAs
Ecosystem services Water quality and provisioning
Climate regulation
Soil health
Water flow at catchment outflow, Sediment load
Land use change GHG emissions
Soil organic carbon stocks
Production
Intensified production Agricultural yields
Adoption of sustainable practices
Waste management
Yield per ha
Extent of certification/adoption of sustainable practices
Adoption of waste management practices
Social
Human well-being Poverty
Food security
Access to basic services
Improved standard of living
Poverty rate
Malnutrition/stunting in under 5 yr olds
Access to clean water/health centers/literacy rate
Income of hired workers, smallholders and others
Human rights Workers rights
Other human rights
Incidence of forced/child labor
Freedom of association, Discrimination
Governance
Land & resource tenure Tenure security
Conflicts over land and resources
Proportion of land with formalized land/resource rights
Existence of conflicts & functioning grievance mechanism
Land use policies, planning
and management
Land use plans
Intersectoral coordination
Stakeholder participation
Extent of formally adopted land use plans
Agency participation in intersectoral coordination Stakeholder
representation in landscape-level forum

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Nigel Sizer, Chief
Programs Officer at
the Rainforest Alliance
JOINING FORCES FOR A BETTER FUTURE

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