Tony’s Open Chain supply chain. In the context of environmental restoration, remediation might include: reforestation (planting trees in deforested areas to restore forest cover), tree regeneration efforts (encouraging the natural regrowth of trees through practices like assisted natural regeneration, where existing native flora is nurtured to recover and thrive), or the implementation of sustainable agricultural practices (i.e. agroforestry). Remediation aimed at responding to social factors may encompass education and training programs to local communities, supporting fair land tenure and rights, facilitating access to social services, or implementing community-based conservation projects to promote sustainable resource management.
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Mitigation
Deforestation mitigation refers to efforts and strategies aimed at reducing or preventing the loss of forests. It involves actions such as investing in cocoa productivity, promoting agroforestry, community-led tree-planting, protecting forests and their ecosystems or direct investment in a farm (with a high probability risk of deforestation) to improve cocoa production and/or income. At Tony’s Open Chain, mitigation is targeted at any farm which is considered to have a high probability of deforestation after a satellite imagery analysis or field visits.
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Legal documents :
Legal documents in the context of ground-truthing for deforestation events are official papers that outline rights, responsibilities, and agreements related to land ownership, use, and practice of agriculture in permissible areas. These documents might include land titles, government permissions, government maps, concessions, permission agreements and others. Legal documents play a crucial role in the environmental traceability and ground-truthing process. Legality can also be agreed upon by verbal agreement in specific contexts. For example, in Ghana, verbal agreements are recognized as contractual, if there are witnesses. This is the most common form of
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