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The AFi Coalition is a diverse group of organisations from around the world dedicated to protecting forests, other natural ecosystems, and human rights. Working collaboratively, we support use of the Accountability Framework by companies and other key stakeholders to drive positive impact in the agriculture and forestry sectors. The Coalition is made up of 23 member organisations and is facilitated by the AFi's backbone team, which is composed of staff from the Meridian Institute and Rainforest Alliance. See all AFi Coalition members listed below:

Find out more about the work each Coalition member is doing below:

CDP

CDP runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The gold standard of environmental reporting, CDP has the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. Through its independent scoring methodology, CDP measures corporate and city progress, and incentivises action on climate change, forests, and water security.

Ceres

Ceres is a non-profit advocacy organisation working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and sustainable economy. With powerful networks of investors and companies, Ceres is proving that sustainability is the bottom line – changing markets and sectors from the inside out.

Conservation International

Conservation International protects nature for the benefit of humanity. It spotlights and secures the most important places in nature for the climate, for biodiversity, and for people. It also partners with governments, companies, civil society, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, offering an integrated approach to conservation and human rights.

Efeca

Efeca specialises in public/private partnerships and facilitates two industry led initiatives. The first is the UK Sustainable Commodities Initiative (UK SCI), which brings together 127+ industry actors from across the supply chain (from producers to food service retailers) with the collective goal to achieve sustainable, resilient forest risk commodity supply chains to the UK market. The second is the UK Soy Manifesto, which represents over 60% of UK soy consumption, convening the UK’s major meat, dairy, and aquaculture supply chain actors with a commitment to ensuring all soy imports to the UK are verified as physically free from deforestation and conversion. 

Forest Peoples Programme

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is a human rights organisation working with 60+ partner organisations representing Indigenous Peoples and forest communities to secure their rights to their lands and their livelihoods. FPP assists indigenous and forest peoples defend their lands, territories, resources, and associated rights against economic and business paradigms, which fuel the continued incursion into indigenous and forest peoples’ territories without their free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC).

Forest Trends

Forest Trends works to conserve forests and other ecosystems through the creation and wide adoption of a broad range of environmental finance, markets, and other payment and incentive mechanisms. Its Supply Change initiative works to provide greater transparency on supply chain commitments and progress toward goals.

Global Canopy

Global Canopy delivers data-driven transparency by holding to account the financiers, corporates, and governments driving impacts on nature and on Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Its Forest 500 project assesses the policies and performance of the companies and financial institutions most exposed to tropical deforestation. The Deforestation Action Tracker monitors 700+ financial institutions to track their action on deforestation and human rights abuses. The Deforestation-Free Finance guidance shows financial institutions the path for deforestation-free portfolios. Its Forest IQ platform features data on how 2000+ companies are addressing deforestation. It is also a founding partner of the TNFD

High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA)

The High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA) is an international not-for-profit initiative that creates freely available open access resources that are used to end commodity driven deforestation in tropical rainforests. Since 2014, HCSA members have steered the organisation, developing the HCSA Toolkit—the leading global tool for companies to eliminate deforestation in their operations and supply chains. The toolkit allows for sustainable growth without harming rainforests or violating the rights of local communities and workers. Currently, the HCS Approach safeguards over 660,000 ha of HCS forest and has prevented over 9 million ha of forest from conversion, while supporting Indigenous Peoples and local communities to have their rights recognised. 

HCV Network

The HCV Network is a member organisation that promotes the High Conservation Value (HCV) Approach, a pragmatic methodology to identify and protect the world’s most unique and significant ecological and social values. It asks users of the HCV Approach to achieve greater consistency by following a set of guiding Principles. The HCV Network works with diverse stakeholders, including business, standards, technical service providers, smallholders, Indigenous Peoples, and local communities. 

Imaflora

Imaflora is a Brazil-based NGO focused on developing solutions that reconcile environmental conservation and economic development while offering services to the market, serving actors in the forestry, agricultural, socio-biodiversity, and climate agenda chains. Imaflora carries out fieldwork, technical assistance, and socio-environmental certification, in addition to research and development of studies based on public data. Imaflora also works with partnerships to foster collective solutions, including Florestas de Valor, Beef on Track, Soy on Track, Origens Brasil®, Carbon on Track, Timberflow, and others. 

Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL)

Lingkar Temu Kabupaten Lestari (LTKL) is a district government association formed and managed by the district government in order to realise sustainable development that protects the environment and improves the welfare of the community through mutual cooperation. LTKL is a sustainable development caucus of the Association of District Governments throughout Indonesia (APKASI) which was established in July 2017. 

Mighty Earth

Mighty Earth is a global advocacy organisation working to protect Earth and secure a climate that allows life to flourish. It focuses on persuading leading industries to dramatically reduce deforestation and climate pollution throughout their global supply chains in palm oil, rubber, cocoa, and animal feed, while improving livelihoods for indigenous and local communities across the tropics.

National Wildlife Federation

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has over two decades of experience advancing more sustainable supply chains, particularly in forest-risk commodities such as beef, leather, soy, palm oil, and cocoa. Its efforts focus on enhancing robust and comprehensive international agreements that protect the global climate. NWF is also developing traceability and monitoring tools to aid companies in these sectors to address environmental risks within their supply chains. It is a member of key industry and multi-stakeholder platforms (GTFI, Leather Working Group, Colombia Zero Deforestation Agreements, Beef on Track) and have been involved in past and ongoing capacities within the EUDR working groups and dialogues. 

Preferred by Nature

Preferred by Nature is a non-profit organisation that supports better land management and business practices that benefit people, nature, and climate in 100+ countries. It does this through a unique combination of sustainability certification services, projects supporting awareness raising, and capacity building. 

Proforest

Proforest is a global organisation that aims to help agricultural commodity production and sourcing deliver positive outcomes for people, nature, and climate. Proforest works with companies across different commodities and products to implement responsible sourcing and production practices. Proforest works at a landscape level, bringing stakeholders together to address systemic issues at scale. 

Rainforest Alliance

The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organisation working at the intersection of business, agriculture, and forests to make responsible business the new normal. It is building an alliance to protect forests, improve the livelihoods of farmers and forest communities, promote their human rights, and help them mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis.

Rainforest Foundation Norway

Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) is an organisation focused on rights-based rainforest protection. RFN works at the intersection of environmental conservation and human rights, combining knowledge of rainforests and the political and economic drivers of deforestation with a large partner network. RFN collaborates with ~50 local and national environmental, indigenous, and human rights organisations. Its main geographical focus is the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and New Guinea. RFN aims to halt deforestation and human rights violations by commercial actors by working with the financial sector, companies, policymakers in importing countries, and Chinese stakeholders towards this goal.  

ResourceTrust

Resourcetrust Network is a Ghana-based knowledge and practice non-profit organisation that supports sustainability in the forest and agriculture sectors. Globally, and in addition to collaboration with the AFi, it works closely with initiatives such as the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). On the local level, it engages with private industry, smallholder farmers, forest fringed communities, local government, community resource management areas, and civil society organisations on topics such as biodiversity conservation, livelihoods, and climate resilience.

Rights & Resources Initiative

Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is a global coalition of over 150 organisations dedicated to advancing the land, territory, freshwater, and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities, especially the women and youth within these groups. RRI leverages the power of its coalition to amplify the voices of local peoples and proactively engage governments, multilateral institutions, and private sector actors to adopt institutional and market reforms that support the realisation of rights in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global environmental non-profit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Thanks to more than a million members and the dedicated efforts of its diverse staff and over 400 scientists, TNC impacts conservation in 77 countries and territories: 41 by direct conservation impact and 36 through partners. In Brazil, TNC works in regions such as the Cerrado, the Amazon, and the Atlantic Forest, on a variety of projects aimed at halting deforestation and ecosystem conversion and protecting land rights.

Verité

Verité is an international labour rights NGO specialised in providing technical assistance to companies, governments, and civil society organisations to drive progress on labour issues in global supply chains. Verité staff are global experts on forced labour and human trafficking, responsible recruitment, child labour, freedom of association, anti-discrimination, and healthy working conditions. Verité offers a suite of assistance, including benchmarking and improving human rights policies and due diligence processes to align with the Accountability Framework and legislation; assessing human rights risks, identifying salient issues, and building action plans; and creating customised training programs.​

World Resources Institute (WRI)

World Resources Institute (WRI) is a trusted partner for change. Using research-based approaches, WRI works globally and in focus countries to meet people’s essential needs; to protect and restore nature; and to stabilise the climate and build resilient communities. WRI aims to transform the way the world produces and uses food and energy and designs its cities to create a better future for all. Founded in 1982, WRI has nearly 2,000 staff around the world, with country offices in Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States, and regional offices in Africa and Europe.​

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has been working to address commodity-driven deforestation and conversion for many years. Through its global, regional and local teams, several WWF offices collaborate with actors across supply chains in most impactful global commodities (soy, palm oil, beef, timber, cocoa) to deliver a deforestation- and conversion-free (DCF) Global Action Plan that enable companies, governments and producers to align with the 1.5°C pathway.

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