Charting Prominent Traders’ Progress Toward Deforestation- and Conversion-Free Cattle and Soy Supply Chains
CDP has tracked ten of the highest impact cattle and soy traders, assessing their progress against the good practice guidance of the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) and providing targeted recommendations to achieve and transparently report deforestation- and conversion-free (DCF) production and sourcing.
This assessment covers nine prominent traders that disclosed publicly between 2001 and 2024: Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Amaggi, Bunge, BRF S.A., Cargill, Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), JBS, Marfrig Global Foods S/A, and Minerva Foods. LDC is included for the first time in 2024 following its public disclosure. COFCO responds privately and is therefore excluded from this assessment.
Ambitious targets to eliminate deforestation and other ecosystem conversion in commodity supply chains were set for the end of 2025. This summary assessment charts progress using CDP’s commodity management KPIs as companies prepare their 2025 reports for the 2026 disclosure cycle.