While good progress has been made by some, the next step is for companies to shift up a gear and start turning policy commitments into company practice. This starts with moving beyond their own operations to ensuring that new standards and approaches are implemented by suppliers too. This should include specific measures such as a commitment to zero tolerance for land grabs, taking steps to better understand the specific challenges faced by women in their supply chains and reducing agricultural emissions through stopping deforestation and reducing the carbon footprint associated with growing, transporting and processing food and drink...Business models that squeeze value away from farmers and workers must be transformed so that they can thrive, and so that the food system can work for us all...The last few decades have increasingly seen power and value concentrated among a smaller and smaller set of traders, processors and other corporate actors in value chains. Meanwhile, small scale producers and farmers have been left with an ever decreasing share of the total value that consumers pay for their food...We are seeing good practice starting to emerge with some of the best exa
mples being commercial business models where farmers own businesses that capture more value. Models like KTDA, where 550,000 small-scale tea farmers co-own processing plants result in farmers receiving 75 per cent of the final tea price...Business models such as these must become the future of the food sector if we are to allow farmers and workers to thrive so they can continue to feed us all.