Beyond Compliance: Why HRDD Must Operate at Origin
At Terraxis, we believe we should aspire to move beyond compliance when it comes to child labor, forced labor, casual labor wage abuse, and sexual exploitation across plantations and processing sites associated with the cacao, Tea, and Coffee supply chain. We placed human rights due diligence at the center of our sourcing strategy and in […]
When Farm Data Starts Working for the Farmer
In February, I met Elisa, a single mother raising a teenager while growing coffee alongside avocado and macadamia in Kenya. She is among the relatively few women parcel owners who converted inherited land into a formal title deed. I remain deeply skeptical of one assumption underlying EUDR: that a smallholder growing coffee or cacao on less […]