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Forest Monitoring for Transparent Supply Chains

Impact

We are strengthening forest monitoring of commodity-driven forest loss and advancing restoration across the globe. Learn more about how we plan to work together with partners and stakeholders to achieve this and create a shared data ecosystem.

Each of the impacts below is made possible by three interlocking forest monitoring methods: field data collection using solutions like Open Foris Ground, Earth Observation analysis drawing on satellite imagery and global land-cover datasets, and convergence of evidence — the process of combining multiple data sources to build a verified, plot-level picture of deforestation risk with Open Foris Whisp.

Together, these methods give governments, companies, and smallholders the reliable geospatial data they need to prove their commodities come from deforestation-free land — turning monitoring into measurable, market-ready impact.

Explore the stories below to see how this monitoring-to-impact chain works in practice across different countries and commodities.

Peru

Introduction Focus: Cocoa and agroforestry systems. Peru is advancing the integration of Whisp into national certification systems and enhancing data interoperability to support deforestation‑free compliance and broader sustainability goals.
Country Peru
Start date 2025
Status Ongoing
Objective / Goal

Focus: Cocoa and agroforestry systems.

Peru is advancing the integration of Open Foris Whisp into national certification systems and enhancing data interoperability to support deforestation‑free compliance and broader sustainability goals.  

The initiative aims to enhance forest monitoring and promote transparent commodity value chains by developing open, inclusive, and scalable solutions.
Partners 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) and the United Kingdom.
Beneficiaries This effort supports producers, companies, and regulators in ensuring sustainable and deforestation-free value chains. 
Activities
  • Engage: Engagement with governments and commodity platforms to help engage a wide cross-section of supply-chain actors and enable feedback to government-led processes of relevance (national forest monitoring, cadastres and others). 
  • Locate: Large-scale field data collection campaigns to bridge the gap for smallholder associations for regulation compliance, promoting right to data for smallholders, reducing de-duplication. 
  • Monitor: Enhancing interoperability of Open Foris solutions with National Forest Monitoring Systems, integration of convergence of evidence processes in national platforms for forest and commodity monitoring. 
  • Trace: Strengthening physical and digital traceability in key supply chains through open-source solution.