Sustainability

Towards Futureproof Certification and Assurance: a Reflection between Textile Exchange and NewForesight

A conversation between Ana Garzon (Assurance and Operations Manager at Textile Exchange) and Joost Backer (Senior Consultant at NewForesight) As of 2023, the sustainability space is faced with two trends: a growing urgency of sustainability challenges (climate, human rights) and an increasingly high-risk market context around sustainability systems, including voluntary sustainability standards and private company […]

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Seaspiracy: What a great documentary and how it got us all talking about the wrong solutions

The documentary Seaspiracy on Netflix is a huge hit. With bloody images it has succeeded in bringing the overwhelming challenges of overfishing, destruction of ecosystems, climate change, slavery, and forced labour practices, and plastic pollution to the attention the millions of viewers and consumers. Thank you Seaspiracy! This public outcry is needed as all these

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The potential of the Guinean pineapple sector: insights from the field

Guinea used to be one of the world’s top producers of pineapples, accounting for a fourth of global export volumes in the 1960s, before rapidly declining to practically no exports in the 2000s. The crop has great potential because of the strong demand for pineapples on both international and regional markets. I had the honor to support

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Entrepreneurship as a pathway out of poverty

Written by: William Saab (Senior Consultant), supported by Jennifer Morton (Analyst).  Also posted on LinkedIn. Thinking Differently: Farmer Entrepreneurship in the Cocoa Sector The need for a more sustainable sector where farmers and their communities can prosper and thrive is a broadly shared conviction within the cocoa sector. To bring this situation about, efforts within

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