Publications

Reports

Getting the “Bads” Out of Goods: Evolution from voluntary to regulated approaches in reducing the undesirable impacts of global trade

This report provides an overview and analysis of the means by which a number of “global public bads” associated with international trade have been addressed. It draws lessons from these experiences for how to tackle the problem of...

26/06/2018

Briefing Notes

Making soft laws enforceable: How the EU can use human rights guidelines to fight agricultural deforestation

The purpose of this discussion paper, which draws on a detailed Fern report as well as an analysis we will soon be publishing, is to show the contours of a way forward. We intend it to start the conversation about how regulatory...

25/06/2018

VGGT: what potential to engage?

This rapid scoping of the Food and Agricultural Organisation Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) sought the views of different organisations, individuals and activists on the usefulness of the...

22/06/2018

Les racines du changement – Actualité des APV, juin 2018

Il y a un an, le programme politique de l’Union européenne remettait les forêts et leur rôle écologique et économique crucial à l’ordre du jour. En juin 2017, lors de la conférence de l’UE sur la déforestation et l’exploitation...

10/06/2018