{"id":36864,"date":"2026-02-04T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=36864"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:46:28","slug":"panel-event-fdf-networking-breakfast-forests-and-food","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/en\/news-insights\/events\/panel-event-fdf-networking-breakfast-forests-and-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel event: FDF Networking Breakfast &#8216;Forests and Food&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, our UK Food and drink and sustainability teams attended the Food and Drink Federation Networking Breakfast \u201cForests and Food: How to procure more sustainable commodities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was an insightful session featuring a panel of experts exploring how businesses can reduce deforestation risks and build more sustainable supply chains.<\/p>\n<h3>Reducing deforestation risks and building sustainable supply chains<\/h3>\n<p>Here are our key takeaways from the discussion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Regulation remains a major driver, even with shifting timelines<\/strong>. Nonetheless, this should be viewed as a tool to set a common baseline rather than acting as an end goal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Certification schemes are a valuable tool<\/strong>. However, they remain one lever that should sit within a wider risk based due diligence framework<\/li>\n<li><strong>Local context matters<\/strong>. Understand which issues resonate most in the regions you source from and how reframing challenges. For example linking deforestation to carbon impacts can strengthen engagement<\/li>\n<li><strong>People and nature are interconnected<\/strong>. Sustainability efforts must consider the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and other vulnerable groups within the value chain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Industry wide collaboration is essential<\/strong>. Market transformation doesn\u2019t happen in isolation, coordinated action accelerates progress<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sustainability is both a risk and an opportunity<\/strong>. Linking actions to long term business resilience and cost management helps secure internal buy in<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stopping deforestation is only the start<\/strong>. Restoration and regeneration activities must also be part of long term nature positive roadmaps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was encouraging to hear about the progress already underway to halt commodity driven deforestation, and we look forward to supporting organisations as this area continues to develop.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to explore this topic further, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/en\/embedding-sustainability-in-operations\/\">reach out to our Sustainability team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36865 aligncenter\" style=\"color: #901837; font-family: 'Gotham Rounded A', 'Gotham Rounded B', sans-serif; font-size: 18px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-2-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Image-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","region":[158,159,160,161,162,240,256,273,336,360],"class_list":["post-36864","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Panel event: FDF Networking Breakfast &#039;Forests and Food&#039; - Argon &amp; Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/en\/news-insights\/events\/panel-event-fdf-networking-breakfast-forests-and-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Panel event: FDF Networking Breakfast &#039;Forests and Food&#039; - Argon &amp; Co\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This week, our UK Food and drink and sustainability teams attended the Food and Drink Federation Networking Breakfast \u201cForests and Food: How to procure more sustainable commodities\u201d. 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