Transparent supply chains

Ensuring transparency, accountability, and sustainability in global commodity supply chains 

FAO is at the forefront of developing innovative monitoring solutions to support sustainable supply chains. Our mission is to provide open, science-based tools and methodologies that empower stakeholders—governments, private sector actors, civil society, and smallholder farmers—to track and reduce commodity-driven deforestation while promoting responsible land use and forest restoration.  With growing global commitments such as the deforestation-free regulations, and corporate sustainability goals, transparent and reliable data is more critical than ever.

FAO’s Transparent supply chains monitoring workstream delivers cutting-edge geospatial solutions, fosters international collaboration, and supports inclusive digital public infrastructure for effective supply chains governance. 

Explore our initiatives, discover success stories, and access key resources that drive sustainable commodity production and forest conservation. 

Solutions
Open Foris Ground
Open Foris Ground

Ground is an open-source, map-first, Android-native, data collection mobile application developed to drive sustainability impact at scale.

Whisp is for everyone along the commodity supply chain, from smallholders, cooperatives, third parties, and operators, to governments and relevant authorities.
Open Foris Whisp

Whisp (What is in that plot?) is an open-source solution which helps to produce relevant forest monitoring information and support compliance with deforestation-related regulations.

Initiatives
AIM4Commodities program

Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests and Commodities

A Collective Approach for Ending Deforestation and Accelerating Restoration
Forest Data Partnership

A Collective Approach for Ending Deforestation and Accelerating Restoration

Publications
01/10/2025

Check the Open Foris Ground Guide to learn step by step how to design surveys, collect data offline, and visualise results in the web console.

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.

Videos
03/05/2024

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

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...