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 […]
Efeca’s Sustainable Commodities Resource Hub is a central hub of information, tools and resources to help businesses source commodities sustainably. It currently focuses on resources linked to palm oil and soya. Regardless of who you are, your level of existing knowledge or position in the supply chain, this Resource Hub will signpost you to resources […]
UK industry leaders commit to sourcing deforestation and conversion free soy by 2025. The UK Soy Manifesto is a collective UK 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 […]
Since 2011, the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) programme has worked around the world to strengthen sustainable and legal forest management. As the FGMC programme entered its final phase, a Policy Evaluation and Learning Team (PELT) was appointed to work collaboratively with UK Government, to identify learnings across several broad themes, including how best to support company […]
Efeca can today announce that, to demonstrate collective support for the FACT dialogue, a broad group of 30+ palm oil and soya Roundtable members and partners have signed a UK Industry Statement of Support of the COP26 FACT Dialogue. As president of COP26, the UK Government is convening a Government to Government (G2G) dialogue on […]
Efeca developed and facilitates the UK Soya Initiative, including the industry-led UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya under the Partnerships for Forests programme. The UK imports around 3.5 million tonnes of soya on average each year, directly as soya bean, meal or oil and indirectly within finished products. Soya is mostly used in animal feed but […]
The UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya has published the 2019 Annual Progress Report with an update on meeting the Roundtable’s goals. The report builds on a baseline study completed in 2018, as part of the launch of the UK RT and sets out our current understanding of the UK soya footprint in terms of volumes, […]
The UK Roundtable on Sustainable Soya was launched on March 19th at The Royal Society in London, attended by more than 35 national and international food businesses and associations involved in the consumption of soya in the UK. Major UK retailers and food industry associations have asked for government support in convening key industry stakeholders […]