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Articles and thought leadership from the Evidensia knowledge base
March 2021
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
As more businesses and organizations adopt market-based instruments for…
The Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)
Over the last five years, I have been leading a research project in Indonesia examining the livelihood and…
Jeffrey Neilson, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of Sydney
Linking farmers into high-end global value chains typically requires product quality upgrading. Quality upgrading, however, can be difficult in agricultural chains…
Rocco Macchiavello, Associate Professor of Management, London School of Economics
The production, processing and marketing of coffee is experiencing rapid changes. Coffee appears to be a very dynamic sector, with frequent…
Ruerd Ruben, Fédes van Rijn, Tinka Koster & Yuca Waarts, Wageningen University and Research
The coffee sector is a recognized frontrunner in the emergence and proliferation of private standards that aim…
Janina Grabs, Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH, Zurich.
