The Guidance Note presents UNDP’s conceptual framework and key intervention areas in the sustainable commodities sector in line with its new Strategic Plan 2018-2021. UNDP work in this field is designed to address the linked topics of natural resource management and environmental protection, social well-being, and durable economic growth (hereafter referred together as ‘sustainability’) in the production, processing and trade of agricultural commodities. The Note provides case studies to illustrate non-prescriptive policy, programming and partnership options for adapting to country context, as well as successful results achieved in four intervention areas.