How can companies ensure meaningful engagement with their stakeholders? Listen to Danny Miles, Head of Collective Action at the Ethical Trading Initiative, and Dr Wilson Odiyo, Corporate Affairs Director for Eastern Produce Regional Services (EPRS)

What does effective Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement (MSE) look like in the food and agriculture sector?
In this episode of Frankly Speaking, Richard Howitt was joined by Danny Miles, Head of Collective Action at the Ethical Trading Initiative, as well as Dr Wilson Odiyo, Corporate Affairs Director for Eastern Produce Regional Services (EPRS), a consultancy based in Kenya with expertise in agro-economics, providing technical support, marketing and logistics to agricultural producers in eastern and southern Africa, and one of ETI’s company members.
Together they discussed ETI’s recently developed guidance on MSE for the food and agriculture industry alongside an alliance of organisations (Amfori, FLA, Oxfam Sweden amongst others), as well as EPRS’s experience in implementing it.
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Check out our previous episode with ETI here, featuring their Head of Membership Kate Lewis and Francesca Mangano, Head of CSR and Sustainability at TFG London: https://en.frankbold.org/frankly-speaking-podcast/82-kate-lewis-francesca-mangano-how-supply-chain-due-diligence-can-work-for-all

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