Identifying the conditions under which forest-focused supply chain policies lead to improved conservation and livelihoods: a pan-tropical analysis

Project Information

FORESTPOLICY

Grant agreement ID: 949932

DOI

10.3030/949932

EC signature date 17 December 2020

Start date 1 March 2021

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 893 287,00

EU contribution

€ 1 893 287,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Goal-Based Private Sustainability Governance and Its Paradoxes in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector

Author(s): Janina Grabs; Rachael D. Garrett
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2023, ISSN 1573-0697
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05377-1

Transformative changes are needed to support socio-bioeconomies for people and ecosystems in the Amazon

Author(s): Rachael Garrett, Joice Ferreira, Ricardo Abramovay, Joyce Brandão, Eduardo Brondizio, Ana Euler, Danny Pinedo, Roberto Porro, Emiliano Cabrera Rocha, Oscar Sampaio, Marianne Schmink, Bolier Torres, Mariana Varese
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 8, 2024, Page(s) 1815-1825, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02467-9

Is the Implementation of Cocoa Companies' Forest Policies on Track to Effectively and Equitably Address Deforestation in West Africa?

Author(s): Thomas Addoah, Joss Lyons‐White, Federico Cammelli, Keessy Maria‐Prisca Kouakou, Sophia Carodenuto, William J. Thompson, Cécile Renier, Rachael D. Garrett
Published in: Sustainable Development, Issue 33, 2025, Page(s) 5197-5213, ISSN 0968-0802
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/sd.3380

Effectiveness-equity tradeoffs in enforcing exclusionary supply chain policies: Lessons from the Amazonian cattle sector

Author(s): Federico Cammelli; Samuel A. Levy; Janina Grabs; Judson Ferreira Valentim; Rachael D. Garrett
Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, Issue Volume 332, 130031, 2021, ISSN 0959-6526
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.130031

Designing effective and equitable zero-deforestation supply chain policies

Author(s): Grabs, Janina; Levy, Samuel; Cammelli, Federico; Garrett, Rachael
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue Volume 70, 2021, Page(s) 102357, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102357

Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado

Author(s): R.D. Garrett; J. Grabs; F. Cammelli; F. Gollnow; S.A. Levy
Published in: World Development, Issue 152: 105814, 2022, ISSN 0305-750X
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105814

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon could be halved by scaling up the implementation of zero-deforestation cattle commitments

Author(s): Samuel A. Levy; Federico Cammelli; Jacob Munger; Holly K. Gibbs; Rachael D. Garrett
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 80: 102671, 2023, ISSN 1872-9495
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102671

Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems

Author(s): Rachael Garrett, Patrick Meyfroidt, Ariane de Bremond, Ariani Wartenberg, Lindsay Barbieri, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Emmanuel Acheampong, Thomas Addoah, Matthew Adeleye, Peter Alexander, Joyce Brandão, David Anthony Coomes, Erle C. Ellis, J. Fajardo, Johanna Jacobi, Melissa Leach, Sharachchandra Lele, Aymara Llanque Zonta, Joss Lyons-White, Adrian Martin, Peter Messerli, E. J. Milner-Gullan
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.250810

How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

Author(s): Löfqvist, Sara Kleinschroth, Fritz Bey, Adia de Bremond, Ariane DeFries, Ruth Dong, Jinwei Fleischman, Forrest Lele, Sharachchandra Martin, Dominic A Messerli, Peter Meyfroidt, Patrick Pfeifer, Marion Rakotonarivo, Sarobidy O Ramankutty, Navin Ramprasad, Vijay Rana, Pushpendra Rhemtulla, Jeanine M Ryan, Casey M Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães Wells, Geoff J Garrett, Rachael D
Published in: Bioscience, Issue Volume 73, Issue 2, Pages 134–148,, 2023, ISSN 0006-3568
Publisher: American Institute of Biological Sciences
DOI: 10.17863/cam.91365

How Does the European Union's Pluralistic Institutional System Influence Policy Change? The Case of the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products

Author(s): Laila Berning, Rachael D. Garrett, Metodi Sotirov
Published in: Sustainable Development, 2025, ISSN 0968-0802
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/sd.70236

Scaling out agroforestry and forest conservation in West Africa requires more transformative policy interventions in cocoa supply chains

Author(s): Federico Cammelli, Thomas Addoah, Norina Anna Furrer, Prisca Kouakou, Joss Lyons-White, Cécile Renier, William Thompson, Rachael D Garrett
Published in: Environmental Research: Food Systems, Issue 2, 2025, Page(s) 033001, ISSN 2976-601X
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2976-601x/adf117

Incentives and barriers to private finance for forest and landscape restoration

Author(s): Sara Löfqvist, Rachael D. Garrett, Jaboury Ghazoul
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue volume 7, 2023, Page(s) pages 707–715, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02037-5

Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia

Author(s): Joss Lyons‐White, Matthew Spencer, Joko Arif, Andrew Balmford, Jos Barlow, Joyce Brandão, Jan Börner, Gilberto Camara, Adelina Chandra, David Cleary, Marcus Colchester, Arya Hadi Dharmawan, Andini Desita Ekaputri, Janina Grabs, Susanna Hecht, Nassat Idris, Lila Juniyanti, Shashi Kumaran, Felicia P. S. Lasmana, Marcia N. Macedo, Toby McGrath, null Nawawi, Ruth Nussbaum, Marcela Paranhos, Edward
Published in: Conservation Letters, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1755-263X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/conl.13120

Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders

Author(s): David Wuepper, Thomas Crowther, Thomas Lauber, Devin Routh, Solen Le Clec'h, Rachael D. Garrett, Jan Börner
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue Vol 84, 2024, ISSN 1872-9495
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102770

How well does the implementation of corporate zero-deforestation commitments in Indonesia align with aims to halt deforestation and include smallholders?

Author(s): Adelina Chandra, Rachael D Garrett, Kimberly M Carlson, Robert Heilmayr, Matthieu Stigler, Jason J Benedict and Janina Grabs
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue Vol 19 No 4, 2024, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad33d1

West Africa: make cocoa production truly sustainable

Author(s): Thomas Addoah, Joss Lyons-White, Rachael Garrett, Federico Cammelli
Published in: Nature, Issue 616, 33 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1476-4687
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-00891-8

A systematic comparison of deforestation drivers and policy effectiveness across the Amazon biome

Author(s): Aline Hänggli; Samuel A Levy; Dolors Armenteras; C Isabella Bovolo; Joyce Brandão; Ximena Rueda; Rachael D Garrett
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue Volume 18, Issue 7, 2023, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd408

The role of midstream actors in advancing the sustainability of agri-food supply chains

Author(s): Janina Grabs, Sophia Carodenuto, Kristjan Jespersen, Marshall A. Adams, Manuel Antonio Camacho, Giacomo Celi, Adelina Chandra, Jeremy Dufour, Erasmus K. H. J. zu Ermgassen, Rachael D. Garrett, Joss Lyons-White, Moray McLeish, Ina Niehues, Sofia Silverman & Emily Stone
Published in: Nature Sustainability, 2024, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01296-9

Explaining the stickiness of supply chain relations in the Brazilian soybean trade

Author(s): Tiago N.P. dos Reis; Vivian Ribeiro; Rachael D. Garrett; Tobias Kuemmerle; Philippe Rufin; Vinicius Guidotti; Pedro C. Amaral; Patrick Meyfroidt
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 78: 102633, 2023, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102633

The challenge of commodity-centric governance in sacrifice frontiers: Evidence from the Brazilian Cerrado's soy sector

Author(s): Samuel A. Levy, Anna Victoria Nogueira Garik, Rachael D. Garrett
Published in: Geoforum, Issue Vol 150, 2024, ISSN 1872-9398
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103972

Equity in unilateral value chain policies: A monitoring framework for the EUDR and beyond

Author(s): Constance L. McDermott, Thomas Addoah, Tawiah Agyarko-Kwarteng, Rebecca Asare, Alex Assanvo, Mairon Bastos Lima, Helen Bellfield, Amanda Berlan, Sophia Carodenuto, Toby Gardner, Rachael D. Garrett, Caitlin Hafferty, Mark Hirons, Verina Ingram, Eric Mensah Kumeh, Joss Lyons-White, John Mason, Patrick Meyfroidt, Jasper Montana, Gustavo L.T. de Oliveira, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Metodi Sotirov,
Published in: Forest Policy and Economics, Issue 174, 2025, Page(s) 103469, ISSN 1389-9341
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2025.103469

Why has the Brazilian Cerrado been left behind by voluntary environmental policies?

Author(s): Joyce Brandão, Fatima Cristina Cardoso, Rachael Garrett
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 92, 2025, Page(s) 103005, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.103005

Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems

Author(s): Leonie Hodel, Yann le Polain de Waroux, Rachael D. Garrett
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 973-982, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01381-z

Other (2)

Supporting socio-bioeconomies of healthy standing forests and flowing rivers in the Amazon

Author(s): Rachael Garrett, Joice Ferreira, Ricardo Abramovay, Joyce Brandão, Eduardo Brondizio, Ana Euler, Daniel Pinedo, Roberto Porro, Emiliano Cabrera Rocha, Oscar Sampaio, Marianne Schmink, Bolier Torres, Mariana Varese
Published in: Science panel for the Amazon, Issue Policy brief, 2023
Publisher: Science panel for the Amazon

What factors protected forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia? A Delphi study

Author(s): Joss Lyons-White, Matthew Spencer, Joko Arif, Andrew Balmford, Jos Barlow, Joyce Brandão, Jan Börner, Gilberto Camara, Adelina Chandra, David Cleary, Marcus Colchester, Arya Hadi Dharmawan, Andini Desita Ekaputri, Janina Grabs, Susanna Hecht, Nassat Idris, Lila Juniyanti, Shashi Kumaran, Felicia P.S. Lasmana, Marcia N. Macedo, Toby McGrath, Nawawi Nawawi, Ruth Nussbaum, Marcela Paranhos, Edward
Published in: OSF, 2025
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/bpgsm_v1