The FACT Secretariat participated to the workshop titled “Seeking to curb deforestation: Sticks, carrots, and their implications for agri-food and wood product value chains”.
This workshop explored agricultural and forest commodity-relevant regulations, and (voluntary) sustainability standards such as forest certification, and the resulting implications for value chain actors (e.g., smallholders).
It highlighted national-level cases from all regions including from Ghana and Indonesia.
The purpose of this workshop was to provide a space for science-policy-practice exchange, debate, reflection and joint learning in relation to opportunities and challenges primarily linked with EU regulations aiming at curbing deforestation.
Thereby exploring regulations’ interplay with (voluntary) sustainability standards/certifications, and their actual and potential implications for value chains of agricultural, food, and wood products, with actionable insights into the requirements of regulations and the role voluntary sustainability standards can play in this respect.
