Project

Taking Deforestation out of the Soy Supply Chain

Lead country

Brazil

Participating countries

Brazil

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From June 30, 2017 to June 30, 2021

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  2. 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  3. 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use

Project ID: 5896

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Mainstreaming biodiversity
  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Agrobiodiversity
  • Ecosystem-based mitigation

Landscape(s)

  • Forests
  • Conserved areas
  • Grasslands

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Tropical forests
  • Productive landscapes/Seascapes
  • Savannas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture

UNDP role(s)

  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Management operation
  • Governance
  • Food and agricultural commodities

Sub-strategy

  • Sustainable land management
  • Ecosystem and ecosystem services conservation/restoration
  • Knowledge/Data management
  • Partnerships
  • Inter-sectoral coordination
  • Laws enforcement/ Regulation
  • FACS strategies for sustainable supply chain (TP 4)
  • Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Private sector
  • Indigenous peoples

Gender equality

  • Women decision making
  • Women farmers
  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • People pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation
  • Improve resilience

SDG target(s)

  • 15.2 Promote sustainable forest management, restoration, afforestation
  • 15.5 Reduce habitat degradation, halt biodiversity loss, extinction
  • 15.a Mobilize resources for biodiversity conservation, sustainable use

Conventions and protocols

  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Private sector(s)

  • Large corporations

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation
  • Public-private partnership
  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy

About this project

Description

The present project is seeking to reduce the threat to biodiversity, pressures on high conservation value forests, and GHG emissions that the advancing agricultural frontier is posing in the Matopiba region, via restoration. The project will focus on the Southeast of Maranhão, the southwest of Piaui, the west of Bahia and central Tocantins. This is in line with the overall IAP, whose program goal is to implement a supply chain approach to solve underlying root causes of deforestation from agriculture commodities.

Objectives

To reduce the threat to biodiversity that the advancing agricultural frontier is posing in the Matopiba region, through a supply chain approach that solves the underlying root causes of deforestation from soy.

USD $6,600,000

Grant amount

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($6,600,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Conservation International

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Dialogue, Policies and Enforcement

 Indicators:

1: Extent to which legal or policy or institutional frameworks are in place for conservation, sustainable use, and access and benefit sharing of natural resources, biodiversity and ecosystems. Indicator:
1) Number of properties registered
2) Percentage of area analyzed/regularized:
3) Number of properties supported with the preparation of a proposal on how to restore or offset their deficit
2: Number of direct project beneficiaries (women and men)
3: Deforestation rates in Matopiba region.
Area under restoration
Number and size of traditional lands protected through safeguards
Number of policy recommendations taken up by policy makers including gender sensitive proposal
Percentage of productive area registered in the SICAR system, analyzed, validated and regularized
Proxy Indicators: Projects in the ten municipalities financed by the ABC program to finance among others: no-till; biological fixation of nitrogen; restoration of degraded areas, and others
Area under integrated management identified and agreed (proposals for conservation units submitted and management plans agreed)Goal is to protect 10,000 hectares of Cerrado Forest. No carbon calculation was prepared, first because it is not expected to involve land use change and second because part of the balance may already be included in the reduction of deforestation calculationsArea under legal protection as percentage of total area of the Matopiba region (including indigenous lands, conservation areas, lands of quilombolas and forest code preservation areas).
# of new long-term finance products developed based on findings from the business base analysis
From WWF ProDoc # companies with increased capacity to use decision-relevant information developed by the Transparency portal to inform their strategies
Note that this will be implemented and monitored under WWF's demand child projectFrom WWF ProDoc: # of companies that have increased capacity to make and implement commitments to source reduced deforestation commodities
Note that this will be implemented and monitored under WWF's demand child projectIdentification of pilot landscapes or farmers to test the long-term finance product through workshops
Number of lessons learned and disseminated
Outcome 2:

Farmer Support Systems and Agri-inputs
Outcome 3:

Land Use Plans and Maps in Targeted Landscapes
Outcome 4:

Supply Chain Integration
Outcome 5:

Knowledge Management and Monitoring and Evaluation
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Project reports and documentation

 

Project Document (ProDoc)