Transparent supply chains

Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests and Commodities
AIM4Commodities (Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests and Commodities) is a global initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), funded by the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ). The project aims to enhance forest monitoring and promote transparent commodity value chains by developing open, inclusive, and scalable solutions. This effort supports producers, companies, and regulators in ensuring sustainable and deforestation-free value chains. 
Why AIM4Commodities? 

As the global demand for sustainable commodities increases, so does the need for reliable and transparent monitoring of land use and deforestation risks. Recent regulations emphasize the necessity of geospatial data for supply chains compliance. AIM4Commodities seeks to bridge persistent data gaps by providing open, inclusive, and scalable solutions to support smallholders, producers, companies, and regulators in ensuring sustainable and deforestation-free value chains. 

 

Scope and activities 
Decentralized asset registry: owned by countries and providing actors dealing with regulatory mechanisms with a standardised geometry format that is easy to use, to integrate and to share geolocation information along traceability chains.
Integration and deployment of Open Foris Whisp with traceability tools: INATrace, ITC Deforestation-Free Trade GatewayTechnoServe...
Automated field boundaries: using a combination of top-down (automatically produced, verified or updated from remote sensing imagery) and bottom-up approaches (information produced, verified or updated in the field).
Enhanced in-country capacities:  Support smallholder farmers in adopting sustainable practices and meeting regulatory requirements. Capacity building with Open Foris Ground and Pilot Asset Registry in ​Kenya (coffee), Colombia (cocoa) and Vietnam and Laos (coffee and rubber).
Training material: eLearning course on DPI and Open Foris Ground.


Highlights
Institutionalization of forest data
Institutionalization of forest data - Online facilitated course
21/03/2025

Master the foundations of sustainable forest monitoring! From 7 May – 6 June 2025 immerse yourself in a stimulating learning adventure. Hosted by the...

Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade regulations
Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade regulations. What is in that plot? (Whisp)
31/05/2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drives the development of a pre-competitive digital public infrastructure to support...

Videos
03/05/2024

A simple, intuitive, and versatile data collection mobile application to empower smallholders to

06/05/2024

In this lunchbreak, Rémi d'Annunzio, Forest Officer, Forest Data Partnership Science and Data Lead at FAO, will present the innovative open-source solution...

23/07/2024

What is in that plot? (Whisp) solution to implement convergence of evidence What is in that plot is an open-source solution which helps to produce...