This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Jennifer Morris: Ensuring Supply Chain Sustainability" created on May 2, 2011. It features Jennifer Morris discussing the role of corporate partners like Walmart and Starbucks in sustainability initiatives, focusing on supply chain sustainability and public-private partnerships, including a collaboration with USAID in Indonesia.
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Some of the corporate partners are big ones. Walmart is a huge corporate partner of ours that we've helped steward through a lot of their sustainability initiatives. Starbucks is, we're just finishing, we've been working with them for 10 years on working on coffee farmers and now we're helping them to climate change proof their coffee supply chain. Again for these companies it's not about csr, it's about really enlighten self interest. How do they ensure that their supply chains will be sustainable in a changing world. Whether it's coffee or fish or gold. In the case of jewelry for Walmart, we worked on a whole sustainability program for Walmart and just understanding those supply chains, analyzing those supply chains and then analyzing the risks, the environmental risk to the supply chains is really critical. So do you run into usaid similar? Yes, yes. So in fact we are just now getting ready to announce a big partnership between the Walmart Family Foundation CI and USAID in Indonesia on a public private partnership bringing in it will be $20 million to start and bringing in other companies to help develop sustainable supply chains in two different places where it's red, it's carbon markets plus a multitude of other job creating industries. So yes, we do a lot with the Global Development alliance. So with public private partnerships with usaid.
