In 2023, Trase data helped enable the Consumer Goods Forum’s Forest Positive Coalition, an initiative by 21 member companies, to address commodity-driven deforestation and land conversion in their supply chains and sourcing regions.
Cattle ranching farm in Marabá, Pará State, Brazil. Credit: Marcio Isensee e Sá.
Alongside Proforest and in consultation with the member companies, Trase developed a replicable method to benchmark soy municipalities in Brazil as ‘negligible risk’ and ‘at risk’ for soy conversion. This has been adopted in the guidance for the Coalition’s soy roadmap and is being used by all member companies including Nestlé, Mars and Mondelēz to implement and report on their deforestation and conversion-free commitments.
This method is also being used in the Coalition’s beef roadmap on managing own supply chains and monitoring and response. The same method has been used to inform the Palm Oil Collaboration Group to identify regions in Indonesia and Malaysia with minimal independent smallholder-driven deforestation.
Trase was a critical partner in the definition of an approach for negligible risk origins. Their expertise on data analysis and spatial modelling is enhanced by their capacity to identify data approaches guided by positive impact and adapted to sector feasibility.
Jane Lino, Deputy Director, Proforest