On ISEAL Community Members

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On ISEAL Community Members

ISEAL members are sustainability systems and accreditation bodies dedicated to delivering benefits for people and planet. They are committed to continually improving their systems and impacts through learning and innovation. They are transparent and truthful about how their systems work and how they measure their impacts. ISEAL Community Members are systems that strive to understand the difference they are making by implementing a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. Use this page to access research and evidence on the impacts of ISEAL Community Members.

May 2021

Feedstock availability for sustainable aviation fuels in Brazil

June 2022

Guide for smallholder farmer organisations. Implementing human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD)

Fairtrade works with over 1500 farmer organisations in high-risk areas. Many farmer organisations have not yet heard about human rights and environmental due diligence…

February 2022

Drivers, benefits and challenges of ASI membership and certification: ASI certification survey 2021

This report provides an analysis of the results from an ASI survey that was sent to all members in the Production and Transformation and Industrial Users Membership classes who achieved…

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Drivers and barriers of voluntary sustainability initiatives in mining raw materials for batteries

The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EV) is growing demand for battery raw materials including lithium, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. The potential for Voluntary…

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Voluntary sustainability standards and technical efficiency of Honduran smallholder coffee producers

Sustainable coffee production promises to improve production techniques and enhance the socioeconomic conditions of smallholder farmers. Using primary survey data from 659 coffee producers…

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Multi-tier captive relations in the global value chain of tuna: the case of Fair Trade certification of small-scale tuna fishery in Indonesia

Voluntary sustainability standards have been used as a governance mechanism to ensure the sustainability of fisheries…

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Research report

Friends or foes? The impact of voluntary sustainability standards on agricultural exports of developing countries

This report investigates the impact of Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) on exports from developing countries, focusing on eight key agricultural…

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July 2022

From commitments to action at scale: Critical steps to achieve deforestation-free supply chains

Eliminating deforestation and conversion of other ecosystems for agriculture and forestry is central to meeting both global climate and nature goals. We are unlikely to avoid disastrous…

May 2022

Assessment of tools to mainstream biodiversity for businesses

Increasing awareness of the scale and characteristics of biodiversity loss has led to high-level prioritisation for policymakers in, for example, the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (CBD, 2021),…

May 2022

The case for living wages

Work is often lauded as the most important route out of poverty. There is little doubt that work can and even should provide a way out, but for hundreds of millions of people, this is…

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