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

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