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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 â even though that region produces a
On the investor side,
Blackrock, the worldâs largest asset manager â which is managing US$7 trillion in assets under management, more than the GDP of any country except the US and China â voted against the directors of rubber glove maker Top Glove at its annual general meeting earlier this month, because of a lack of respect for workersâ rights.
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, and by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, which included agroecology as a key component of its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
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 laborers, who come to work on temporary employer-sponsored visas.