Build-Back-Better from COVID-19 with the adoption of sustainability standards in food systems

The advent of the food system is an exemplary phenomenon that industrializes agriculture to secure food availability for the ever-growing population. However, food system activities have…

Trade policy and VSS

In this podcast, produced in partnership with the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS), Vidya Rangan (Senior Manager for Impacts and Evidence, ISEAL) talks to UNCTAD Senior Economist…

COVID-19 and human rights: Assessing the private sector's response to the pandemic across five sectors.

This study complements the 2020 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark report. It explores the response of the private sector to COVID-19, identifying examples of best practice as…

The World of Organic Agriculture: Statistics and Emerging Trends 2021

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the status of organic agriculture and sales worldwide and trends over years.…

Coffee Barometer: 2020

The year 2020 has long captivated the coffee sector’s imagination as the culmination of the sustainability transformation process set in motion after the 2002 coffee crisis. Over the past decades, d…

Coffee and sustainability: combining insight from research and practice

Coffee and sustainability: combining insight from research and practice …

Building resilient smallholder supply chains: how to enable transformation for farmers, institutions and supply chains

This report sets out the initial findings of Innovation Forum’s action research project to build durable smallholder agricultural supply chains. This p…

Linking voluntary standards to Sustainable Development Goals

With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations has called on the private sector to contribute more to achieving the sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This report helps…

Voluntary sustainability standards, public procurement and trade (Webinar)

The United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS) is a joint initiative of 5 UN Agencies (FAO, ITC, UNCTAD, UN Environment and UNIDO) and aims to provide governments and their stakeholders…

Global Market Report: Soybeans

This global market report on bananas is part of the IISD: Sustainable Commodities Marketplace Series. It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of global production, export and trade of…

The State of Sustainable Markets 2020 - Statistics and Emerging Trends

This report, the fifth update on the state of sustainable markets, presents the latest data on area, production volume and producers for 14 major standard-setting organizations. …

Upscaling the use of VSS through Sustainable Public Procurement and Trade Policy