Transparent supply chains

The Forest Data Partnership strengthens collaboration and application around global monitoring of commodity-driven deforestation, forest degradation and restoration efforts across the globe

A collective approach for ending deforestation and accelerating restoration
The Forest Data Partnership strengthens collaboration and application around global monitoring of commoditydriven deforestation, forest degradation and restoration efforts across the globe. Governments and companies around the world are pledging to help end deforestation and accelerate restoration to avert the worst impacts of climate change, protect against biodiversity loss and safeguard the many benefits of forests to people and nature.

The partnership aims to halt and reverse forest loss from commodity production by collaboratively improving global monitoring and supply chain tracking. It aligns partners around the data and ensures access for stakeholders across sectors to open-source data on geospatial forest-risk commodities that is consistent and validated. The result is credible, systematic monitoring, verification and accountability towards progress in reducing commodity-driven deforestation and restoring degraded lands.
Engage Partners
and Stakeholders
Align on
Foundational
Data Gaps
Innovate
Demand-Driven
Approaches
Deploy Data
Delivery
Mechanisms
Assess Impact

 

Innovating Demand-Driven Approaches

We work with you to compile, harmonize and mobilize the best available data using the ensemble method, a machine learning technique that combines several base models to produce an optimal, predictive model. Our ensemble includes the best available data sets, benefiting from diverse inputs.

If you have field, ground or training data, we can use it to train the ensemble, improving prediction in your area of interest.If you have map products to contribute to the ensemble, our custom pipeline will illuminate where your model is the strongest.Through our network of trusted observers, we conduct field inventories to train and validate our ensemble or use crowd-sourced open data.

 

Learn more about our data releases and how we can support your work
Publications
Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade regulations
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 compliance on aspects of the trade regulations related to forest monitoring.

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Videos
06/11/2024

The rapidly evolving landscape may signal a tipping point for fuller traceability and transparency in supply chains for agricultural and forest commodities. They are both critical to monitoring where forest loss is happening and to support decision-making by supply chain actors.

06/02/2023

Join this webinar to learn about how the Forest Data Partnership’s approach will build alignment of stakeholders to reach consensus around key datasets...

03/05/2024

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