{"id":2725,"date":"2023-02-10T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cf.iisd.net\/ssi\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2023-05-24T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:18:32","slug":"voluntary-sustainability-standards-cotton-sector-bangladesh-india-pakistan-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/webinar\/voluntary-sustainability-standards-cotton-sector-bangladesh-india-pakistan-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary Sustainability Standards in South Asia: A focus on the cotton sector in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Webinar | Voluntary Sustainability Standards in South Asia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TU0dLYzGXhg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/VSSinSouthAsia_PresentationSlides.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:0px;background-color:#5abc89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We hosted a public webinar to discuss the findings from the report: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/system\/files\/2023-03\/voluntary-sustainability-standards-south-asia-cotton-supply.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voluntary Sustainability Standards in South Asia: A focus on the cotton sector in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research maps voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) criteria and market potential and explores how VSSs can help address three major sustainability issues: pest management, water conservation, and farmers\u2019 incomes and prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moderator<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sara Elder, Senior Policy Advisor, IISD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speakers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vivek Voora, Senior Associate, IISD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Florencia Sarmiento, Policy Analyst, IISD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discussants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hardeep Desai, Head of Farm Operations, Cotton Connect\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zahid&nbsp;Hussain,&nbsp;Farmer Representative, CABI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tassawar Hussain&nbsp;Malik, Director of Research, Pakistan Central Cotton Committee, Ministry of National Food Security &amp; Research, Pakistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This webinar discussed how voluntary sustainability standards can help address sustainability issues in South Asia&#8217;s cotton sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webinar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}