Articles and thought leadership from the Evidensia knowledge base
July 2021
Global sustainability challenges are complex problems. These problems cannot be solved by any one a…
Sheila Senathirajah, Senior Manager, Innovations, ISEAL
Sustainable sector transformation. Why is it important, what is it and how can you achieve it?…
Jan Willem Molenaar and Jan Joost Kessler, Aidenvironment
The Food Systems Summit, coming up in September this year, is triggering an unprecedented wave of creativity and initiatives to transform…
Andrew Bovarnick, Global Head, Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems; Nature, Climate & Energy at UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
April 2021
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been severe and far reaching. Governments worldwide have enforced strict measures to curb the spread of the…
Sara Elder and Sally Millett, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
March 2021
Why look at forest-focused supply chain policies? The expansion of agricultural areas remains…
Rachael Garrett, Environment Policy Lab at ETH Zurich and Ximena Rueda, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
Covid-19 – a step back for gender equality Inequality between women and men is among the most pervasive forms of i…
Sally Smith, independent research consultant and member of the Anker Living Wage and Income Research Network
Jurisdictional approaches are relatively novel and receive growing attention from a range of stakeholders. Whether they can be the missing piece in the…
Marius von Essen, Land Change Lab at Stanford Earth
February 2021
Over the past twenty years, much work has been dedicated to improving labour standards in cocoa production, with the aim of weeding out child labour. Nevertheless, the latest…
Dr. Dorte Thorsen and Prof. Roy Maconachie
Discourse on transformative change and how to achieve it is rapidly increasing in international development and environment…
Valerie Nelson, Jan Joost Kessler, and Jan Willem Molenaar
December 2020
For the past 20+ years the coffee sector has been leading the global experiment to see if a commodity can meet growing demand, drive economic…
Bambi Semroc (Sustainable Coffee Challenge, Conservation International) and Vidya Rangan (Evidensia and ISEAL)
November 2020
Voluntary sustainability initiatives have helped to establish the principle of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as an…
Dr Emma Wilson, independent researcher
October 2020
A decade ago myself and colleagues then working at CATIE…
Prof Jeremy Haggar, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich
