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
Weekly podcast: How will due diligence impact commodity supply chains?
Better Cotton’s 2030 impact-delivery strategy
Innovation for more sustainable shopping baskets
Rent, resale and beyond: The circular business models transforming apparel
Landscape and forest restoration: what works in practice?
Weekly podcast: The big climate challenges for apparel and textiles
Weekly podcast: How carbon finance can preserve forests and livelihoods
What do farmers want from brands and buyers?
Deforestation: is there too much focus on palm oil?
Weekly podcast: Palm oil’s business-led $1bn forest restoration initiative
Climate change and human health: Education to empower consumers and communities
Weekly podcast: How verified standards drive carbon market growth
Why FIFA risks a huge credibility problem in Qatar
Why no one values trees more than cocoa farmers
Weekly podcast: How to source sustainable manmade textile fibres
Why brands need better data to hit apparel supply chain goals
The post-COP practical solutions to look for in 2022
Weekly podcast: 2021 in review – the year that all roads led to COP26
The $10bn interventions that can halt future pandemics
Weekly podcast: Why a 1.5C future will displace one billion people
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