This week: Alison Ward, CEO of CottonConnect, on challenges for smallholder farmers emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, and why they must develop financial and agricultural resilience, alongside continual access to new markets.
Plus: why poverty alleviation can cut deforestation; 100 economists urging an end to the carbon economy; challenges for plastic recycling from low oil prices; and, Unilever, Patagonia and Ikea voted sustainable business leaders (again), in the news digest.
Hosted by Ian Welsh
Progress on deforestation: where are the chinks of light?
Weekly podcast: Get to grips with deforestation and land conversion impacts: a how-to guide
What do we really mean by net zero?
Circular by design: How apparel brands can make informed choices
Weekly podcast: What an effective vertical food supply chain looks like
A how-to guide for a deforestation-free palm oil supply chain
Weekly podcast: Nestlé’s road to a collaborative net-zero strategy
Why supplier relationships are key to achieving ambitious targets
Is the revolution in plant-based diets a fixture?
Weekly podcast: Cargill’s commodity sourcing challenges in Brazil
Due diligence regulation – the risk of smallholder exclusion
What bold environmental and social regulation implementation looks like
Weekly podcast: How supply transparency drives competitive advantage
The engagement, governance and integration pillars for net zero success
Weekly podcast: Britvic’s sparkling net zero and packaging strategy
Palm oil’s evolving regulatory risks
How to boost soil health and accurately measure the carbon benefits
Weekly podcast: Why traceability is not all good news for palm oil
Apparel companies’ role in overcoming barriers to circularity
Weekly podcast: How to plot a realistic and robust route to net zero
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