Efeca provides advice and support to develop, implement, monitor, evaluate and report on national and international policies, regulations and private sector commitments, both voluntary and mandatory, on the sustainable and legal sourcing of natural resources, with a focus on agricultural and forest commodities.
With experience in over 30 countries and team members and associates all over the world, we provide in-depth insight and independent support to clients across the public and private sectors, research and civil society across a wide range of commodities including palm oil, soya, timber (wood), rubber, cattle (beef and leather), sugar, coffee, cocoa and carbon, as well as more widely reaching topics such as nature and biodiversity, climate change, social issues and deforestation.
Find out more about our work on the UK Sustainable Commodities Initiative, including what all of our Working Groups (Oleochemicals, Embedded Soy, Food Service, Living Income and Coffee groups) are focusing on.
We run the UK Soy Manifesto, a UK industry initiative, with signatories spanning across the supply chain from meat producers, consumer goods manufacturers, to grocery retailers and food service companies downstream of supply chains. It sets out a clear market requirement from industry (soy users) for all physical shipments of soy to the UK to be deforestation and conversion free with a cut-off date of January 1st 2020 (meaning that conversion of native vegetation after this date is considered to be non-compliant with the manifesto).
For information on our involvement as the Secretariat of the UK Global Resource Initiative (GRI) Taskforce and how the Taskforce considered how the UK could reduce the climate and environment effects of key UK supply chains, read our Final Recommendations Report, Executive summary (published on March 2020) and our GRI Finance Report (published July 2022).
Visit the Efeca Resource Hub – a central hub of information, tools and resources to help businesses source sustainable and legal commodities – especially those that can be linked to deforestation and conversion of natural habitats, such as palm oil and soya.
