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Article

26 Oct 2010

Author:
Jess Sand, The Guardian

Beyond the Sweatshop: poverty footprints and supply chains

...Oxfam's Poverty Footprint project is an ambitious undertaking intended to provide a systematic, measurable methodology that corporations can use to evaluate and influence their impacts on actual people and communities – specifically in terms of poverty...[K. Cahill, Oxfam:]"...in a poverty footprint you're looking at really five areas"...Diversity and gender equality...Sustainable livelihood...Health and well being...Empowerment...Stability and security...Whether in the garment industry or agriculture or technology, there are several core areas of a company's operations that tend to influence the above poverty drivers...Unilever...worked with Oxfam to pilot the footprint methodology...[They] did field research into Unilever's Indonesian supply chain, including local farmers and traders, factory workers and management, communities...[Cahill:] "There's a lot to be gained by companies who have never been in conversation with a supplier or stakeholder..." [also re: Maggie's Organics]