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
Initiatives
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Open Foris Ground Guide
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. 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 compliance on aspects of the trade regulations related to forest monitoring.
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Open Foris Ground early version test demo session
03/05/2024
A simple, intuitive, and versatile data collection mobile application to empower smallholders to
Towards a digital public infrastructure for deforestation-related trade regulations
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...
More from FAO
- Ecosystem Restoration Monitoring
- EU Forest Governance and Value Chains Programme
- Forest Monitoring
- Open Foris
- SEPAL
External links
- Digital Integration of Agricultural Supply Chain Alliance
- Forest Data Partnership
- Sustainable Agriculture Supply Chains Initiative
- Team Europe Initiative on Deforestation-free Value Chains
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Forest monitoring for sustainable commodity production and smallholder inclusion
23/10/2025
Unsustainable commodity production remains the main driver of deforestation and degradation of tropical forests.
Addressing trade-offs...