In 2025, the first year of implementation, the Supporting green and sustainable agricultural supply chains in Guatemala (VER CRECER) Project delivered tangible progress in strengthening capacities and advancing more sustainable practices across Guatemala’s agricultural supply chains. This first year helped build a shared understanding of key challenges and opportunities, strengthen technical capacities, and create enabling conditions for the gradual and effective implementation of responsible practices across supply chains.
The project fostered sustained dialogue with key public-sector, private-sector and civil-society stakeholders, and delivered strategic training processes that laid the groundwork for the progressive uptake of risk-based due diligence across five priority value chains: coffee, sugar, palm oil, timber and cocoa.