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Articles and thought leadership from the Evidensia knowledge base
September 2020
Global value chains (GVCs) have become a dominant aspect of international trade, comprising…
Niematallah E.A. Elamin and Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba, Trade Analysis Branch, Division on International Trade and Commodities, UNCTAD
In September 2015, the United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda…
Dr. Axel Marx, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Mr. Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
August 2020
Scaling up existing, small solutions which already create new economic opportunities and governance structures is an essential path…
Eric Lambin, Jim Leape, Hajim Kim and Kai Lee, Woods Institute for the Environment and Centre for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University.
July 2020
The recently released UN 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Report makes clear that there is a long way to go before the global goals are…
Vidya Rangan, Evidensia
May 2020
Organic agriculture holds a significant place in the history of sustainable development and the rise of voluntary sustainability standards. Production…
Vidya Rangan, Senior Manager, Impacts and Evidence, ISEAL
Evidence on voluntary sustainability standards effectiveness and impact is strengthening, but…
Valerie Nelson, Michael Flint and Adrienne Martin
April 2020
The first time the term ‘Free, Prior and Informed Consent’ appeared in the literature was as …
Rita Mendez, ISEAL Alliance
February 2020
The debate on the role and impacts of supply chain approaches in supporting smallholder livelihoods has advanced significantly in the…
Vidya Rangan, Impacts and Evidence Senior Manager at ISEAL Alliance
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are now an important mode of governance in agricultural commodity chains.…
Philip Schleifer and Yixian Sun
December 2019
As sustainability professionals, we often ask ourselves what works: What works to address deforestation? What works to improve farmer incomes? What…
November 2019
Recently, the ISEAL Alliance launched a new website under the challenging title of ‘Evidensia’ that provides a comprehensive ove…
Prof. Ruerd Ruben, Policy Advisor Food Systems, Value Chains & Impact Analysis, Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University and Research
October 2019
An international team of researchers, led by Jeff Neilson and Russell Toth from…
Jeffrey Neilson, Senior Lecturer and Programme Coordinator at The University of Sydney
