Forest Peoples Programme & NICFI | Ground-truthing to improve due diligence on human rights in deforestation-risk supply chains

Industrial agriculture continues to drive land grabs, deforestation and human rights abuse in the palm oil, soy, beef, leather, rubber, cocoa, timber, and pulp and paper sectors at the tropical forest frontier.This paper highlights how ground-truthing offers major potential to improve risk assessments and audits to prevent harmful supply chain impacts on human rights. It intends to stimulate dialogue on actions and innovations needed to increase company and investor use of ground-truthing to enable better human rights due diligence.