Land Conversion for Agriculture reviews how a company (or its suppliers) changes natural landscapes - forests, grasslands, wetlands, peatlands or savannas - into cropland or pasture to produce commodities such as soy, beef, palm oil, cocoa, rubber and biofuels. It covers:

• direct conversion linked to owned or leased farms, plantations and ranches;
• indirect conversion embodied in purchased raw materials or animal feed;
• assessment of baseline ecosystem value (carbon stock, biodiversity, water regulation) and application of the mitigation hierarchy (avoid → minimise → restore → offset);
• adherence to legal requirements and voluntary

  no-deforestation/no-conversion cutoff dates, high-carbon-stock (HCS) and high-conservation-value (HCV) methodologies;

• geospatial mapping, traceability and supply-chain due-diligence systems that verify land-use change;
• measurable targets, transition plans and disclosures aligned with frameworks such as GRI 304, EU ESRS E4, TNFD LEAP, and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 10).