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IISD is partnering with Malaysia’s national palm oil certification scheme to strengthen the reliability and visibility of its sustainability claims to markets, regulators, and consumers.
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The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote sustainable consumption-related awareness, practices and informed public policy in India. Formalized in Delhi by IISD CEO Patricia Full...
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The SSI team was at the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum in September and one phrase kept coming up: due diligence. But what does it actually mean? Our policy analyst, Rupal Verma, breaks it down. Find out more about our work on due diligence and voluntary sustainability stan...
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More than a quarter of Kenyans were undernourished in 2021, and food insecurity continues to rise. At the same time, food loss and waste in sub-Saharan Africa exceeds 30% of production—more than double the global average. This means that countries like Kenya are losing and wasting more food than ...
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Coordinated action from all value chain actors is needed to increase demand for sustainably produced soybeans and develop effective incentives that reward farmers for adopting more sustainable practices, new research shows.
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As governments face increasing pressure to protect their forests, new research highlights the importance of sharing the wins and setbacks of tried and tested action in the Global South.
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Voluntary standards and initiatives for carbon management can fill a legal void in climate regulations but limited alignment and a lack of uptake from private sector companies are hindering their impact, new research shows.
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New report unearths the latest consumption and production trends in the tea sector and highlights the need to develop new approaches to recognizing the social and environmental costs of conventional tea production, so farmers can be adequately rewarded for using more sustainable practices.
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We need to get better at recognizing, measuring, and sharing the social and environmental costs of producing food and goods so the burden to pay doesn’t fall on smallholder farmers.
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New IISD research analyzes the extent to which producers are included in the governance systems of six standard-setting organizations in the agricultural sector. Progress is promising but much more needs to be done to enable producers to have their say in decisions that impact their lives.