The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) brings together leading global agribusiness to find collective solutions to some of the most pressing sustainability challenges in their value chain. Working to eliminate soy-driven deforestation and 转换 in the Brazilian Cerrado, the group published their sixth 进展报告 in December 2021, to ensure better, more consistent communication with key stakeholders.
在这份报告中, the six SCF members reaffirm their commitments to increase the transparency and traceability of their Cerrado-sourced soy supply chains, to track sourcing w在这里 t在这里 are the highest risks of deforestation and 转换.
Tackling deforestation and 转换 risks begins with a transparent and credible picture of w在这里 soy comes from. By tracing soy all the way down to the farm, and t在这里fore being able to identify whether it is linked to deforestation, 转换, or other issues at farm level, SCF members can focus their efforts w在这里 they matter most, and measure progress towards the elimination of soy-driven 转换 and deforestation in the Cerrado.
在这种情况下, and building upon the SCF’s expanded scope announced in June 2021, members developed a common methodology to report soy verified to be deforestation- and 转换-free in the SCF 61 focus municipalities, for which progress will be reported as of 2022, providing further accountability to soy value chain stakeholders.
On supply chain traceability, the vast majority of SCF members are now able to track 100% of their soy volumes back to the farms from which they source directly. All companies have also made progress on improving transparency of their indirect sources through the mapping of their first point of aggregation. The next step for 2022 will be building a collaborative relationship with these intermediaries, steering the implementation of traceability systems to monitor their own suppliers. 此外, with the newly established methodology to report on soy sourced by joint venture partners, SCF members are paving the way to provide accountability for the entire soy supply chain.
Access the new SCF Reporting digital platform 在这里.
下载 the SCF 进展报告 executive summary, December 2021: