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News round-up (Aug/Sep)
Companies, trade associations and government departments are realising the benefits of using the supply chain to meet their social and environmental objectives.
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Corporate responsibility
and agriculture
Today’s agriculture industry has extensive influence and therefore a responsibility for wide ranging issues including human rights and the destruction of biodiversity.With the concentration of power lying with a small number of multi national corporations, David Logan and Oliver Balch examine the developments that have been made, and look further into the supply chains in the cocoa, tea and coffee industries.
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Wal-Mart is changing
Wal-Mart, sceptic of the CSR 'industry' is changing. If you are a supplier, do expect to be asked a lot more questions about your approach to CSR although they'll want high standards AND low prices of course.
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Supply chains
With the introduction of the Government's Sustainability Development Strategy, sustainability will play a big part in decision-making, meaning factors such as fuel efficiency and benefits to the community will be considered.
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International news
round-up (Aug/Sep)
Two months on from the G8 Summit and the Live8 party, are businesses responding effectively to the challenge to Make Poverty History?
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News round-up (Jun/Jul)
Nike and other companies have joined forces with six leading anti-sweatshop groups to devise a single set of labour standards with a common factory inspection system. In addition, seven out of nine Chinese toy suppliers investigated in a recent report systematically cheat during social audits.
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Increasing poverty?
Traidcraft's Fiona Gooch calls on companies and governments to ensure the benefits of international trade are felt all the way through the supply chain.
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Ian Taylor:
responsibility in the supply chain
Supply chains and CSR share many of the same aims, argues the president of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
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Supply chain management
As the pace of globalisation picks up, managing supply chains in a responsible way is becoming increasingly complex. John Russell reviews the current trends.
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Comment: suppliers
The publication of the Common Code for the Coffee Community hardly sounds like an event to get excited about. But it is - because it provides a rare example of a whole industry approach involving representatives of all parts of the supply chain working with the voluntary sector and government.
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