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It is time for companies to step up efforts on forced labour As governments and investors dial up heat on modern slavery, companies must catch up In the first weeks of 2021, governments and investors have shown just what is possible when there is a will. After making waves last year by issuing import bans on a range of companies across sectors including two of the largest palm oil producers in the world, US Customs and Border Protection has now also banned imports from an entire region – even though that region produces a On the investor side, Blackrock, the world’s largest asset...

Towards a Sustainable and Equitable System of Global Food Production February 1, 2021 The word “agroecology” was first used about a hundred years ago, and it remains the best descriptor for the movements that are rebuilding our relationship with food. The word and practices have been advanced by the global peasant organization La Via Campesina (“the Peasant Way”) for decades, and that—along with the fact that, moving forward, agroecology is the most sensible approach for agriculture—has led to its use and at least partial endorsement by the governments of France, Cuba, and others...

Jorge Bautista Sabino (second from right) came to the U.S. from Mexico on an agricultural visa sponsored by a farm labor contractor. After facing wage theft and other abuses, Sabino joined a class action lawsuit with the support of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, for whom he now works. (Photo courtesy of FLOC.) For years, legal organizations and farmworker advocacy groups have sounded the alarm about the H-2A visa program — the most common legal route to hiring foreign agricultural workers. Faced with massive worker shortages, farmers in the South have increasingly turned to foreign la...