Drivers and commodity impacts on biodiversity in agrifood trade, future hotspots & sustainable landscape typologies TC4BE Deliverable D4.1

The Transformative Change for Biodiversity and Equity (TC4BE) project (2022 – 2026), will support transdisciplinary research toco-generate transformative change pathways in the context of telecoupled agrifood systems. It will engage diverse stakeholders and explore plural perspectives within the EU and partner countries of Cameroon, Colombia, and Kenya, including EU and national policymakers and Indigenous Peoples and local communities. The project aims to strengthen stakeholder capacity on transformative change pathways leading to enhanced biodiversity and equity outcomes.  Work package (WP) 4 of the project provides an analysis of producer country transformative governance pathways. In this first deliverable of work package 4, we present the results of that analysis for three biodiversity-rich countries in the global South that are linked through trade, aid and other policies to the European Union, its companies, and its consumers. This report presents a descriptive analysis of commodity expansion during the 2010-2020 period for the main agricultural crops traded in those countries, together with a spatially explicit typology of landscape patterns and processes, utilizing geospatial open-source datasets, long-term land use Earth Observation data, and (sub)national datasets. The report presents a descriptive analysis of the main Sustainable Landscapes Initiatives, to map out where those initiatives are taking place and if and how they connect to the expansion of the agricultural frontier. Based on these results, the team will concentrate to further other deliverables in WP4 analysing the role of different policy interventions on fostering agricultural growth (deliverable 4.2) to identify possible areas for policy interventions that could be discussed with policy makers and interested parties to foster the transition towards more sustainable land uses and trade policies.