ETI seminar advance flyer

UK launch: ETI Smallholder Guidelines
Recommendations for working with smallholders.

Background:

The ETI smallholder guidelines respond to a complex and frequently asked question: what does application and monitoring of the ETI Base Code look like where small agricultural producers are concerned? In the absence of specific industry-wide guidance on implementing labour standards with smallholders, the ETI Smallholder group set off over a three-year period to respond to this need. The result is a set of comprehensive and practical recommendations containing dedicated sections and tools for different actors throughout the supply chain.

The launch offers you:

• An introduction to the ETI smallholder guidelines which contain dedicated sections and tools for different sets of actors in the supply chain,
   
• An opportunity to understand the process by which these have been developed, as well as the credentials of group members and stakeholders who produced them;
   
• An opportunity to subscribe to the list of those piloting the ETI smallholder guidelines and to feed your experiences into the learning framework.

Speakers:

• Dr. Maggie Opondo, ETI Local Project Officer
• Louise Nichols, Foods Ethical Manager, Marks & Spencers.

Panellists:

• Steve Homer, Commercial Manager, Flamingo Holdings
• Teresa MacKay, Transport and General Workers Union
• Caroline Driver, Programme Co-ordinator, Africa Now.

Who should attend

• All members • Retailers • Purchasers, including agents, co-operatives, exporters, packing houses and suppliers • Commercial auditors involved in inspections of smallholders or purchasers • Smallholders • Trade unions • Non-governmental organisations.

 

The ETI smallholder guidelines are being published in three languages: English, KiSwahili, and Spanish. Two international launches – one in Spain and one in Kenya - will precede this event..
(Contact liz@eti.org.uk).

 

Programme

14.00	WELCOME Chair: Dan Rees, Director, ETI
14.05	How the Smallholder Guidelines were developed Maggie Opondo, Local Project Officer (Kenya), ETI Research findings How the Guidelines were changed in response to smallholder consultation What’s different about our approach to an audit approach
14:25	A retailers perspective The importance of the Smallholder Guidelines to M & S Louise Nicholls Foods Ethical Manager, Marks & Spencers
14:45	PANEL DISCUSSION An opportunity to ask questions of key group members who were pivotal to the production of the Smallholder Guidelines: Teresa Mackay Chair Food /Agriculture National Industrial Sector, TGWU Steve Homer Commercial Manager, Flamingo Holdings Caroline Driver Programme Co-ordinator, Africa Now
15:45	RECEPTION

 

See also:

ETI Activities: Experimental projects: Smallholders