Webinar: Pricing and purchasing practices in the journey to achieving a living income and wage

Without better prices and without adjusting purchasing practices, it is impossible to tackle the main sustainability issues in sectors like cotton and textiles, palm oil, cocoa and coffee. Solidaridad is convinced that companies can take much more responsibility for implementing fair purchasing practices and paying decent prices – and that these efforts should be mainstreamed, rather than simply relegated to niche ‘sustainable’ companies.

But to be honest there is no silver bullet. What can we expect from sourcing departments in individual companies? What can sector and multi-stakeholder initiatives achieve? And what can we hope for from legislation launched by governments in consuming countries?

See also our new research paper on the topic: https://www.solidaridadnetwork.org/publications/price-in-global-commodity-value-chains/