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Supply chain

  • Mali Fairtrade cotton farmer

    Behind the label: can we trust certification to give us fairer products?

    It began with Fairtrade. Almost 30 years later, with hundreds of different certifications is it time to question what they all do and who benefits?
  • Woman walking through a garment factory

    Low wages, unsafe conditions and harassment: fashion must do more to protect female workers

    Harpreet Kaur
    In the spirit of International Women’s Day, leading brands should vow to do more to protect the women making our clothes
  • Fishermen

    Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast

    The company has won plaudits for its admission of forced labour in the Thai seafood industry but much of the supply chain remains hidden
  • Oddly shaped parsnips and carrots

    Brexit a 'nightmare scenario' for UK food and drink business

    Kate Trollope
    The UK’s food and drink firms would have to meet EU food laws to export but have no power to influence those rules, says analyst Kate Trollope
  • Children and teenagers wait to be registered by officials during raid on a shrimp shed in Samut Sakhon, Thailand

    Supply chain audits fail to detect abuses, says report

    Research from the University of Sheffield argues audits are working for corporations but failing workers and the environment
  • Chorizo

    What's really on your plate: hidden world of food fraud revealed - in pictures

  • Minced meat

    Three years on from the horsemeat scandal: 3 lessons we have learned

  • Tree planting

    My big idea for 2016: put community at the heart of our businesses

    Mike Barry
    If we are going to walk the talk that came out of the Paris climate summit, it will be on the streets where customers live
  • A vineyard with dappled sunlight shining through the red leaves of the vines

    How English wine went from a joke to sales of 6m bottles a year

    The rise in popularity of English wine is such that a staggering 12 million bottles are expected to be produced across the country by 2020
  • Silhouette of woman holding her head

    The UK's new slavery laws explained: what do they mean for business?

    Modern slavery is the second largest criminal industry in the world, with annual profits of $150bn. Can the UK’s new legislation help prevent and prosecute forced labour?
  • Tyson food product

    Three food companies with a climate footprint bigger than the Netherlands

    Analysis of the carbon emissions of global food giants Cargill, Tyson and Yara puts agribusiness in the spotlight at UN climate talks in Paris
  • Sheep and cow cheeses ripening in a cellar

    The secretive trade agreements that could scupper climate change ​action​

    GRAIN
    Global trade deals like TTIP and TPP will lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and negate any agreement on climate change
  • sailfish Taiwanese fishing vessel Pacific island Palau

    To catch a fishing thief, SkyTruth uses data from the air, land and sea

    The plucky nonprofit, whose founder’s once dismissed warnings about offshore drilling foretold the BP oil spill, enlists help from Google and Oceana to create a website for tracking illegal fishing
  • Protest at the Morrisons distribution depot in Bridgwater, Somerset

    Bullying tactics: brands can't squeeze suppliers if they're serious about sustainability

    A more sustainable supply chain is needed, but will only emerge when the breakdown in trust between suppliers and buyers is resolved
  • Bottled water

    China’s bottled water industry eyes up the Tibetan plateau

    Tibet wants to expand its bottled water industry by encouraging Chinese companies to tap the Himalayan glaciers, but the environmental stakes are high
  • food waste trash garbage

    US food industry backs government plan to aggressively cut food waste

    The USDA and EPA want to reduce the 133bn pounds of food tossed in the garbage each year by 50% by 2030, and companies seem to be onboard
  • Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit in northeastern Congo<br>Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu, 100 km (62 miles) from Bunia in north-eastern Congo, February 23, 2009. Civil conflict in Congo has been driven for more than a decade by the violent struggle for control over the country's vast natural resources, including gold, diamonds and timber, most of which is exploited using hard manual labour. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)

    African nations work together to rid supply chains of conflict materials

    A new certification framework developed by a group of African nations now makes it easier for companies to weed out conflict minerals from their supply chain
  • A mounted overseer directs sugar-cane cutters in a field, near Le Carbet, Martinique

    The food sector braces itself for crackdown on modern-day slavery

    Businesses are likely to be under increased pressure to clamp down on forced labour in their supply chains once new rules come into play later this year
  • A freshly killed Minke whale hoisted onto Norwegian whaler Kato in the North Sea.

    Why is Spar intent on boosting Norway's cruel and dying whaling industry?

    Clare Perry
    Norway’s fourth largest food retail brand is using its vast store network to promote whale products in the face of consumer boycotts
  • Tuna auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo

    A handful of corporations could hold the answer to crisis in the seafood industry

    Henrik Österblom
    Just 13 companies control 40% of the largest, most valuable fish stocks. Can this dominance offer a potential solution to overfishing?
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