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Hundreds of companies, organization and initiatives have set or defined targets to reduce deforestation by 2020. What can we learn from our efforts over the last decade that can help us achieve more impactful results sooner?

Supply Change offers an extensive resource library on deforestation that companies can use to understand the issue and make progress.

This pitchbook provides a “menu” of on-the-ground programs in Mato Grosso, and makes it simple for companies to connect to the broader Mato Grosso PCI strategy and achieve their own supply chain goals.

The PCI Pitchbook gives an overview of on-the-ground projects that support corporate engagement in the Produce, Conserve, Include initiative in Mato Grosso, Brazil. This video focuses on just one of the projects that are ready to go.

By engaging with governments, civil society, and producers in key sourcing regions, retailers and food product companies can change the landscape of beef and soy production. This infographic gives you a quick understanding of the stakeholders in beef and soy supply chains.

The PCI Corporate Action Group aims to attract company partnerships and cooperation to foster actions linked to the PCI strategy.

The PCI monitor provides dashboards, municipality maps, and other tools the companies can use to track progress and develop engagement strategies in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Brazil's Soy Moratorium was the first voluntary zero-deforestation agreement implemented in the tropics and set the stage for supply-chain governance of other commodities, such as beef and palm oil. In response to pressure from retailers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), major soybean traders signed the Soy Moratorium, agreeing not to purchase soy grown on lands deforested after July 2006 in the Brazilian Amazon. This article outlines what the Soy Moratorium is, and the impact it has had.

Get a quick overview of the Mato Grosso Produce, Conserve, Include initiative, Brazil's working model of the jurisdictional approach to sustainable development.

The Collaboration for Forests and Agriculture is a joint effort of the National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The collaboration supports companies to align, develop and implement deforestation-free commitments for beef and soy in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado, and the Gran Chaco in Argentina and Paraguay by improving decision-support tools, enhancing information transparency and unlocking financial incentives.

Environmental Defense Fund and Conservation International speak to innovative approaches to halting deforestation.