Global Market Report: Cocoa prices and sustainability
This report presents the production and consumption trends of the cocoa sector and how voluntary sustainability standards can improve the commodity's market resilience.
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Global Market Report: Coffee prices and sustainability
A new report examines sustainable production and consumption trends in the coffee sector, focusing on how voluntary sustainability standards can help farmers.
State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standards and Investments in Sustainable Agriculture
This SSI report shows that sustainability standards can reduce financial risks and promote sound business practices to catalyze investment in sustainable agriculture.
State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standards and Poverty Reduction
This report explores how sustainability standards can help reduce poverty and recommendations for policy makers, buyers, and VSS bodies.
Voluntary Sustainability Standards, Forest Conservation, and Environmental Provisions in International Trade Policy
Deforestation rates are slowing, but not fast enough. Public and private sectors are increasingly engaging with international trade measures to help.
Global Market Report: Soybeans
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards can play a valuable role in addressing some of the social and environmental problems involved in soybean production.
Global Market Report: Cotton
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards are performing in the cotton sector.
Global Market Report: Bananas
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards are used to promote sustainable development in the banana sector.
Global Market Report: Palm Oil
This report examines how voluntary sustainability standards can mitigate some of the worst environmental impacts of producing palm oil, the world’s most consumed edible oil.
Expert Consultation with Financial Service Providers: Understanding the sustainability issues agricultural producers need to consider to be investment ready and access finance
This paper presents the results of a consultation that IISD's State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) conducted with over 50 financial service providers in order to better understand the risks and sustainability issues that they consider relevant when assessing finance requests from agricultural producers.