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📣 Important Publication News 📣 🤝 With the support of the European Climate Foundation, AidEnvironment has developed in-depth profiles for all 27 EU member states, analysing 76 products included under the European Deforestation Regulation (#EUDR). 🔎 By focusing on key commodities— cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soy, wood, and rubber—these profiles help identify countries at higher risk of importing deforestation-linked products. 📊 Our analysis provides critical insights into trade flows, highlighting key supplier-importer relationships and potential deforestation exposure. This includes EU overviews of the total import volumes per forest-risk commodity, top-5 recipient countries for each forest-risk commodity, and key imported products per EU member state. Learn more by exploring our 27 EU member state profiles and EU overviews → https://lnkd.in/erHkYHuJ #EUDR #DeforestationFree #EU27MemberStates

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Last Friday, Joana Faggin joined 📚 VTB Study Day 2024: EU Deforestation Regulation 🌳, an in-depth afternoon organized by the Dutch Tropical Forest Association (Vereniging Tropische Bossen). The EMMA4EU project was showcased by one of our partners, Jelle Behagel (WUR), who led discussions about the EUDR's recently approved one-year delay and implementation challenges, emphasizing the focus of the regulation on legality, traceability, and corporate responsibility.   Several concerns about the setup and requirements of the regulation were raised by event participants. Among them, the lack of integration with existing initiatives in producing countries, the oversight of specific land ownership systems and local traditional governance, and the disproportionate benefit its stringent requirements might represent for large corporations, with the potential to worsen issues like monoculture, land conflicts, and market concentration.   #EUDR #LandRights #CorporateResponsibility #Deforestation #sustainability #policy

🌱Together with local farmers and partners in the Philippines, we're restoring soils, boosting ecosystems, and showing how nature holds the key to sustainable farming. Read more about model farm here 👇 #RegenerativeAgriculture #Biodiversity #SustainableFarming

We're happy to announce the launch of Mighty Earth's new Soy & Cattle Deforestation Tracker, which was developed in collaboration with AidEnvironment! 🔎 Check out the Soy & Cattle Deforestation Tracker here: https://lnkd.in/eetiz4KU 🔎 Read Mighty Earth's press release for more background on the tracker and how AidEnvironment's work has contributed to Mighty Earth's findings: https://lnkd.in/eQn5ykqQ Our colleague Joana Faggin says: “One of the goals of AidEnvironment’s Realtime Deforestation Monitoring (RDM) System is to analyze publicly available data to drive more transparency in commodity supply chains and to strengthen the implementation of traceability and zero-deforestation commitments, whether voluntary or legally-binding. This allows Mighty Earth to use the RDM analysis to engage directly with global soy traders and meatpackers.” #Soy #Cattle #DeforestationTracker #Environment #Brazil #Forest #JBS #Bunge #Cargill #AmazonForest

We’re proud to have worked with a pioneer and learned a lot from Aliet Green throughout the 🥥 Sugar and Steam project 🌴 Our contribution was being responsible for the Monitoring and Evaluation, as well as the land and water management aspect of the project. We're eager to do more impactful work similar to what has been achieved here with the farmers! #nonprofit #sustainability #empowerment  

At AidEnvironment, we believe in the importance of ⚡ continuous learning and 📚 constantly improving our team's skills. As such, we held a training session on nonprofit communications, with both our Europe and Uganda offices in attendance. Led by our consultants Ana Natividad and Melissa Capiot, it was a fantastic opportunity to connect with colleagues across locations, learn from each other, and discuss ways to elevate our communication strategies. 🧠 Our colleague Sem Veerkamp shares, “It was nice to catch up and meet some of the Ugandan colleagues in the breakout session. It was also handy to get some guiding principles for communication, for example LinkedIn strategy, including tips that can be easily implemented by anyone.”    💻 Meanwhile David Mwayafu remarks, "I found the section on writing effective LinkedIn profiles particularly insightful. The idea of using a QR code at the end of presentations is a clever and efficient way to share information about the organisation." 🤝 As Marina Vara Gutiérrez sums it up, "We are excited to apply the valuable tips and insights shared during the session to improve our communication across the organisation."    #Teamwork #LearningAndDevelopment #CommunicationSkills #ImpactfulCommunication #AidEnvironment #ContinuousImprovement #LinkedInTraining

🌳 Nature-Based Solutions benefit people and nature at the same time! Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) use the power of nature to solve and mitigate a variety of problems linked to climate change, biodiversity loss, weakened agricultural land, drought, flooding and pests, among others. Read more here to learn more about how AidEnvironment incorporates and implements NbS in our work 👇 https://lnkd.in/gXa8ZeFu

🛩️ Our intern Tommaso Orsini writes about his experience during his trip to Uganda to conduct impact assessment research for the projects led by AidEnvironment in the Mt. Elgon region. 🧑🌾 Click here to read the full article 👇

Great workplaces aren't just about the tasks, they're about the people. The interactions and connections we have with our peers can shape our new ideas, perspectives, approaches to work, and make a profound impact. 🌍 Thank you for following along every week as we've shared memories from past and present colleagues as part of our #anniversary series to celebrate 36 years of #AidEnvironment.