Public webinar: In 2013, ISEAL launched the Credibility Principles, which provide an international reference for defining the foundations of credible practices for sustainability standards. Over the last decade there has also been increasing interest and research into specific principles such as...

Enabling food and consumer goods value chain members to act as agents of change for sustainability. Heather Mak is a Toronto-based sustainability advisor with almost 15 years of experience on food, retail and consumer goods in North America and Europe. Her key areas of specialty include strategy and integration, stakeholder engagement, trends analysis, project management, and communications on topics such as social compliance programs, human rights in emerging economies, labelling and certification programs, and animal welfare.

At a time when living income for farmers is a key issue for governments, civil society and industry, the Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP) gathered experts for a workshop to discuss issues around the concept of living income. During the workshop, held in April, more than 200 delegates...

As an initiative from economy and science the ZNU – Centre for Sustainable Corporate Leadership (Zentrum für Nachhaltige Unternehmensführung) is an institute within the Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University. The ZNU The ZNU owns long profound experience in the applied evaluation of sustainability – particularly in the food sector. The ZNU is active in teaching, research and professional training and organises the annual “future conference food”. A high-ranking advisory board from industry and science gives technical and practice-oriented impulses. The institute is

Today we find ourselves in one of the most disruptive times in modern history. Around the globe, sustainability organisations and sustainability-minded businesses are pivoting to support the producers, workers, families and enterprises along their supply chains in response to Covid-19....

ISEAL’s Credibility Principles have helped businesses, policy makers and standards developers define and identify good practice for sustainability standards. Since their launch in 2013, we have seen a lot of change in the sustainability landscape. ISEAL has now launched a consultation to update the...