Addressing sustainability issues is a long-term effort: it’s about learning from evidence and doing
In recent years, a wealth of evidence has been published on the manner in which sustainability initiatives can result in positive economic, social and environmental...
IPM Coalition launches new Pesticides and Alternatives app to support farmers in adopting sustainable practices
In May 2019, a coalition of nine ISEAL members launched the new ‘Pesticides and Alternatives’ app as part of their mission to eliminate the use...
Supporting farmer livelihoods in India: the role and potential of standards systems
‘We can’t be satisfied with knowing our outputs. We must be obsessed with outcomes and impacts’. This is what participants heard at a workshop in...
Doing nothing is not an option
Impact is a word we hear all the time in sustainability circles. Often when we talk about impacts, we’re talking about reducing the negative ones...
ISEAL members putting certification on the map
Geospatial data has become part of our everyday lives. We increasingly depend on apps and programs that use map-based information to provide useful insights. In...
Sustainability standards: shaping business to deliver on the SDGs
Climate change, deforestation and forced labour are among many increasingly pressing issues that need more investment, innovation and collaboration. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide...
Consultation closed: ISEAL developing guide on good benchmarking of sustainability
Most sustainability standards are benchmarked in one way or another. This means they are assessed, compared and potentially recognised as meeting a certain level of...
‘Good intentions are not enough’: Gender sensitive auditing
BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) and Assurance Services International (ASI) provided key insights into the techniques and impact of gender sensitive auditing last month during...
Claims, credibility and landscape approaches
Patrick Mallet, Innovations Director at ISEAL, and Akiva Fishman, Senior Program Officer at World Wildlife Fund, discuss what credible assurance at a landscape level looks...
Closing the income gap for farmers
Creating the enabling conditions to support the achievement of a living income is paramount to the members of the Living Income Community of Practice, an...
