In 2014 Blue Skies introduced a ground breaking new second party auditing system. The second party (the purchaser in the farmer/purchaser relationship) social audits that we do at our farm suppliers in Egypt and Ghana are carried out by our people who live in these countries and understand the social […]
Category: Opinion
The Ethical Audit
Anthony Pile explores the ethics of the ethical audit This short paper has been inspired by a realisation that much of the material which makes up the basis upon which food retailer ethical audits are conducted on overseas food suppliers to Britain, has come from experts in ethical conduct who […]
Unsustainability
Everyone is talking about ‘Sustainability’ these days. Once they were talking about ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ and then ‘Corporate Responsibility’ became the talk of the town, presumably because the ‘Social’ part didn’t like all the attention and ran away. Now ‘Sustainability’ has rolled up in a flash new jumper and stolen […]