Event Description
Does your company depend on commodity crops grown around the world? Are you responsible for integrating human rights into your sustainability, due diligence, and traceability efforts?
This webinar is for companies, suppliers, and traders seeking to understand and implement human rights due diligence in agricultural supply chains. Join Verité for the launch our new Farm Labor Due Diligence Toolkit, a groundbreaking, free resource to help companies tackle challenging human rights issues – including on farms and in the “first mile.”
The Farm Labor Due Diligence Toolkit reflects decades of Verité’s collaboration with companies and civil society organizations to improve human rights in global agricultural supply chains. It presents a clear improvement pathway from Basic, to Established, to Leadership in each area of due diligence, and includes action-oriented guidance, benchmarking tools, and other resources. Users will transform their due diligence from a checkbox exercise into a comprehensive framework to drive true human rights impact.
Participants in the webinar will hear from Verité staff and partners using the Toolkit to deliver tangible impact for farm workers, farming communities, and other stakeholders.
Webinar Takeaways
- Understand the most common human rights risks in global agricultural commodity supply chains
- Learn about the Verité Farm Labor Due Diligence Toolkit and how it aligns with international mandates and frameworks
- Understand how to benchmark your company using this Toolkit, and identify a clear improvement pathway in each area of due diligence
- Hear inspiring examples of impactful human rights programming at farm and “first mile” levels
Speakers
Elizabeth Garland, Chief Program Officer, Verité
Dr. Elizabeth Garland is a senior labor rights professional with expertise in the prevention and remediation of child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in complex global supply chains. A cultural anthropologist by training, she has more than 25 years of experience working on the social and environmental challenges associated with globalization, economic development, and natural resource exploitation, with regional expertise in sub-Saharan Africa. At Verité, she oversees the organization’s global programming portfolio and has helped build out Verité’s work on due diligence in agriculture and other raw materials.
Frédéric Taly, Senior Program Manager, Verité
Frédéric Taly is a seasoned cross-cultural educator and facilitator with expertise in capacity building in rural development, peacekeeping, and human rights. His experience spans research, consulting, and training in a range of geographic contexts, including in the West African cocoa origins of Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, and Ghana.
Pamela Schreier, Global Head of Cocoa Sustainability, ECOM Agrotrade Limited
Pamela Schreier is the Global Head of Sustainability for Cocoa at ECOM. She began her career in sustainability as a Community Economic Development Volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. After various years working on public-private partnerships for an NGO, she moved to the private sector, joining ECOM’s sustainability team in Latin America in 2013. In 2019, she became the head of the global sustainability team, where she leads the development of ECOM’s global sustainability strategy for cocoa, Smarter Cocoa, as well as the cocoa division’s due diligence and compliance activities.
Rachel Rigby, Senior Program Director, Verité
Rachel Rigby is a senior sustainability leader with 20 years of experience driving social impact, due diligence, and respect for labor rights in global supply chains. She has deep knowledge of best practices in sustainability and ESG policies, standards, frameworks, and metrics in the agriculture sector. Additionally, she has a strong track record of collaborating across cultures and building international and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Rachel leads Verité’s Extended Supply Chain Programs practice group and oversees the Verité Farm Labor Due Diligence Initiative.
Sofia Licona, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Mars
Sofia Licona has worked as Manager of Social Responsibility and Development at the Mexican sugarcane mill Ingenios Santos since 2017, where she coordinates and implements various programs that focus on improving the quality of life and work of Ingenios Santos employees, the community, and members of the company’s supply chain. She chairs the Alberto Santos de Hoyos Foundation, which supports different organizations that work on disability, education and social justice issues in the country. For the past 12 years, she has worked in different organizations that have allowed her to develop her passion for improving the conditions of some of the most vulnerable sectors in Mexico.
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