Activities
The SCI conducts targeted research on market impacts, facilities collaboration and information sharing across existing voluntary sustainability initiatives (VSI's) and facilitates policy and initiative development.
Specific objectives include:
- Improve stakeholder and policy decision making capacity through enhanced access to information on sustainability in commodity markets
- Improve return on investment ratios for VSI's through enhanced efficiencies and economies of scale
- Improve the poverty reduction abilities of VSI's through enhanced participation of rural stakeholders in initiative development
- Improve the environmental impacts of voluntary initiatives through market growth and continual improvements
Through ongoing multi-stakeholder consultation, the SCI identified five cross-cutting areas for the development of sustainable production practices across global supply chains, which include:
- Supporting access to market information on sustainable products
- Strengthening technical assistance for sustainable production
- Improving access to finance for sustainable production
- Strengthening the evidence base on impacts of sustainable products and supply chains
- Facilitating the development of supportive policy for sustainable products and markets
Read more about this topic: Sustainable Commodity Initiative
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