Efeca is the Secretariat for the UK Soy Manifesto, a collective industry commitment to work together to ensure all physical shipments of soy to the UK are deforestation and conversion free (cut-off date of January 2020 at the latest), fully implemented immediately where possible and no later than 2025. The signatories to the Manifesto have […]
About the UK SCI Efeca facilitates the UK Sustainable Commodities Initiative (UK SCI), a pre-competitive, cross-supply chain group convened by the UK Government. The collective goal is to achieve sustainable, resilient forest-risk commodity supply chains for the UK market. Initially established as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in 2012, and expanding to include the […]
This edition of the UK Roundtable’s annual progress report for soya is the 5th in its series, marking five years since the UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya was established in 2018. It reported a small decrease in the total volume of soy imported to the UK (-6%). While there initially seems to be year on […]
On behalf of the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil, Efeca has written the 2021 Annual Progress Report (published in November 2022). Since the inception of the UK Roundtable on Sourcing Sustainable Palm Oil in 2012, a decade of reporting has shown that the proportion of UK imports of palm and palm kernel oil […]
In June 2020, Efeca hosted a significant webinar on the No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation Implementation Reporting Framework (NDPE IRF), featuring representatives from Proforest and AAK. This webinar delved into the critical role of the IRF in enhancing sustainability within palm oil supply chains. The NDPE IRF addresses significant gaps in current sustainability efforts […]
On March 30 2020, the Global Resource Initiative (GRI) Final Recommendations Report and Executive Summary was published. Efeca led the GRI secretariat, as facilitators and lead authors. The Global Resource Initiative (GRI) aims to ensure that the UK’s global commodity supply chain footprint on land, natural resources and ecosystems is sustainable, avoids deforestation and other […]
As part of the UK’s wider Partnerships for Forests Programme, Efeca was Secretariat to the Global Resource Initiative (GRI), launched by the government in 2019. The ambition of the GRI was to establish the UK as a leader on supply chain sustainability. It sought to ensure that the UK’s global commodity supply chain footprint on […]
Overview Efeca developed and facilitates the UK Soya Initiative, which includes the industry-led UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya under the Partnerships for Forests programme. The UK imports approximately 3.5 million tonnes of soya each year, both directly as soya beans, meal, or oil, and indirectly within finished products. Soya is predominantly used in animal feed […]
