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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

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In April 2022, allegations arose claiming children as young as 10 in Ghana , West Africa were harvesting cocoa beans for food industry giant Mondel?z In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. z International, which owns Cadbury.

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Food Resilience and Climate Change

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Prior to the pandemic, Shenggen Fan ( @ShenggenFan ), while serving as the Director General of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), lamented, “It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goal to eliminate hunger worldwide by 2030.

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Sustainability and the Reverse Supply Chain: The Green Eileen Story

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He compared this to the food industry when about 15 years ago, people started becoming aware of the source of their food. As proof, he pointed to the number of food documentaries on Netflix. It will take 3 planet earth worth of resources to support the world by 2030 if we keep growing like this.