“The recent cascade of corporate commitments to zero-deforestation procurement is a “disruptive innovation” that is starting to transform the agricultural commodity business. Underlying this innovation is a growing recognition of the previously hidden costs of the old model of commodity expansion – including loss of the world’s natural forests and the biodiversity they contain, human rights violations and loss of livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local communities who inhabit them, and increases in the carbon emissions that drive climate change.”

https://www.climateandlandusealliance.org/reports/disrupting-the-global-commodity-business/