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The Food Crisis and Living Wages
For the past couple of weeks the media has been full of stories about food inflation and its devastating impact on the developing world.
Last week the World Bank and the IMF released reports indicating that we are facing a potential ‘food price crisis’ and thousands of people may starve.
There have been riots in Bangladesh, [More…]
GAP’s child labour expose of last week has focussed minds on the problem of subcontracting; when suppliers put some, or all, of the manufacturing out to a sub-supplier without the knowledge or consent of the customer. Yesterday’s Observer reported that GAP are looking at a twin approach to tackle both child labour and illicit [More…]
But don’t worry we have been very busy! Not least with delivering babies, doing countless ethical audits across the world, and learning something about the way consumers think about ethical trade.
A consumer survey was published last week which found that many consumers do not believe fashion retailers’ claims on ethical sourcing. It also stated [More…]
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