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: The forest fibre potential for the apparel sector
How the pandemic should be managed to minimise human rights impact
Weekly podcast: H&M and Puma on apparel’s low carbon future
Weekly podcast: How geospatial data analysis can track pandemic impacts on food supply chains
Weekly podcast: How to work with suppliers to tackle critical human rights risks
Weekly podcast: The supply chain human rights risks to watch for from Covid-19 impacts
Why the plastics debate must focus on collection and recycling
Webinar – Companies as human rights defenders: the future of ethical trade?
Webinar – What is the right level of corporate disclosure on human rights?
Webinar – Responsible recruitment: How to mitigate risk of modern slavery reaching supply chains
Webinar – Child labour monitoring and remediation: How are corporate approaches evolving?
Webinar – Supplier engagement and training on human rights: How to scale programs across supply chains
Weekly podcast: how global human rights rules impact corporate supply chains
Wageningen University on poverty alleviation in cocoa, coffee and tea supply chains
Webinar – Supply chain risk mapping: Advances in tech to map and monitor supply chain risks
Webinar – Evolving legislation and worldwide compliance: How to keep ahead of the regulatory curve
Weekly podcast: Developing Veja’s sustainable supply chains, and important news from Innovation Forum
Why due diligence on human rights should be central to corporate purpose
Weekly podcast: Evidence-based approach to tackling plastic pollution
Forest 500 on the lack of corporate progress on deforestation
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