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Where does your food come from? Scientist (@ELI_UCLouvain @TraseEarth) making the food system more sustainable and transparent. Cofundador: @dopastoaoprato.
Jan 31, 2023 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
🎺Hot off the press🎺
New research @IOPenvironment on the deforestation hidden in the Côte d’Ivoire #cocoa supply chain, source of 40% of the world’s 🍫.

Four key take-aways. 🧵 1.Cocoa is a major driver of deforestation. Building on a new high-resolution, high-accuracy cocoa map, we identify 2.5 Mha of cocoa deforestation and degradation from 2000-2019, making cocoa responsible for 46% of the total deforestation and forest degradation in the country.
Jul 6, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
In Nov 2021 the EU commission published a proposal for regulation on deforestation-free trade. After back-&-forth with experts & two debates in the Council, a revised draft was published in June. I'm now reading through - here are some (not so) #HotTakes.

consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press… 101: the legislation is designed to prevent the import into the EU of coffee, cocoa, palm oil, soya, beef and wood products which are limited to recent deforestation.
May 2, 2022 • 22 tweets • 8 min read
A handful of commodities (🐮🌴🍫☕️) cause a third of all #deforestation, harming millions of forest-dependent people, the climate & biodiversity

A few commodity traders (Cargill, Wilmar, Olam, etc) handle this trade

Here’s what you need to know about their sourcing practices 🧵 The supply chains which move commodities around the world are oft described as an hourglass.
Thousands of farmers supply a handful of commodity traders who in turn supply millions of downstream customers. Image
Jul 29, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Currently watching a superb webinar from @StandMighty presenting a host of cutting-edge work on #cocoa supply chains, including an update to their accountability map. A live-thread with some of the insights...
mightyearth.org/cocoa-accounta… @VividEconomics presented a huge effort to map land uses in Côte d'Ivoire - which lost 2% of its forest cover IN ONE YEAR
May 8, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
In non-COVID news, new science!

We show that a lot of information is hidden in the commonly used ‘representative’ environmental footprints of products. For accurate assessment you need supply chain specific data & @TraseEarth data allows you do this at large scale. 1/ Calculating the environmental/carbon footprint of products is hard, not least because many products are internationally-traded, which means that you may need data on production practices from the other side of the world.