APRIL 14, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS

Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Taylor Mickal

APRIL 14, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS

Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Taylor Mickal

APRIL 14, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS

Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Taylor Mickal

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APRIL 14, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS

Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Taylor Mickal

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There is an acute shortage of toilet paper at my local Walmart and other supermarkets. Demand line one has shifted up to demand line two on the supply line. That means there should be a new higher price point to reach equilibrium and fill these shelves. But toilet paper prices are at the old low prices. Ergo, sold out.

A staff member sets up a germination test of a sample of treated maize seed at small seed company Bidasem. These tests are carried out on each batch of seed just after it arrives from the field (before it is stored), directly before processing, and after treatment (just before packaging). The seed is are grown for fixed periods at known temperatures on a damp paper substrate to check its germination rate and vigor.

Bidasem is based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. It produces maize, wheat and oat seed, as well as marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in reaching small farmers with improved seed that offers them better livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío, says director general María Esther Rivas. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need.”

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

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In the seed processing plant at Bidasem, workers visually examine and manually sift maize seed on a conveyor belt, picking out material such as damaged or spoiled seed or pieces of cob. After initial cleaning and sorting, all seed that goes through the plant passes through quality control. If a sample from a batch is found to more have more than 2% impurities, they are either separated out by hand like this or using a gravity table. The batch is then resampled to ensure a clean bill of health to continue processing.

Bidasem is a small seed company based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. It produces approximately 10,000 bags of maize seed a year, each holding 22.5kg, as well as producing wheat and oat seed and marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in reaching small farmers with improved seed that offers them better livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need,” says director general María Esther Rivas.

“Without CIMMYT, we couldn’t exist,” says Rivas. She sells four different maize hybrids, all formed from freely-available CIMMYT parent lines. “Really the most important thing is to produce your own hybrids, and for us it wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t have the germplasm from CIMMYT. What we’re currently producing is 100% CIMMYT.” The relationship between Bidasem and CIMMYT is now deepening through participation in the MasAgro initiative, which includes training courses for seed companies and collaborative trials to evaluate the best seed.

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

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Pieces of cob and damaged seed pile up as a worker visually examines and manually sifts maize seed on a conveyor belt in the seed processing plant at Bidasem. After initial cleaning and sorting, all seed that goes through the plant passes through quality control. If a sample from a batch is found to more have more than 2% impurities, they are either separated out by hand like this or using a gravity table. The batch is then resampled to ensure a clean bill of health to continue processing.

Bidasem is a small seed company based in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. It produces approximately 10,000 bags of maize seed a year, each holding 22.5kg, as well as producing wheat and oat seed and marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in improving farmers’ livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need,” says director general María Esther Rivas.

“Without CIMMYT, we couldn’t exist,” says Rivas. She sells four different maize hybrids, all formed from freely-available CIMMYT parent lines. “Really the most important thing is to produce your own hybrids, and for us it wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t have the germplasm from CIMMYT. What we’re currently producing is 100% CIMMYT.” The relationship between Bidasem and CIMMYT is now deepening through participation in the MasAgro initiative, which includes training courses for seed companies and collaborative trials to evaluate the best seed.

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

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“When farmers see the seed and they like it, that’s something that really motivates me, on behalf of all the people that are making the effort in seed processing and field production,” says Bidasem director general María Ester Rivas (center), pictured with her seed processing team. Bidasem is a small seed company based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in reaching small farmers with improved seed that offers them better livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío, says Rivas. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need.”

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

Workers enter a clean room (no dust closed environment) at the beginningof the work shift at a factory in Vinh Phuc Province, Viet Nam in December 2021. © ILO

See ILO’s project “Sustainable Supply Chains to Build Forward Better” in Viet Nam promotes decent work in the country’s electronic global at www.ilo.org/hanoi/Whatwedo/Projects/WCMS_810622/lang--en/...

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APRIL 14, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS

Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Simone D. McCourtie

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Freight train cars at a cargo terminal. Rail freight is an important part of the supply chain.

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In the seed processing plant at Bidasem, a seed treatment machine coats maize seed with a mixture that includes insecticide and fungicide to protect it from damage in storage or in the ground, and a bright pink dye to show that it has been treated, and should not be used for human consumption.

Bidasem is a small seed company based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. It produces approximately 10,000 bags of maize seed a year, each holding 22.5kg, as well as producing wheat and oat seed and marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in reaching small farmers with improved seed that offers them better livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío, says director general María Esther Rivas. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need.”

“Without CIMMYT, we couldn’t exist,” says Rivas. She sells four different maize hybrids, all formed from freely-available CIMMYT parent lines. “Really the most important thing is to produce your own hybrids, and for us it wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t have the germplasm from CIMMYT. What we’re currently producing is 100% CIMMYT.” The relationship between Bidasem and CIMMYT is now deepening through participation in the MasAgro initiative, which includes training courses for seed companies and collaborative trials to evaluate the best seed.

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

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Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Simone D. McCourtie

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Seed is stored ready to deliver to distributors in the warehouse at Bidasem, a small seed company based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. The company produces maize, wheat and oat seed, as well as marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in reaching small farmers with improved seed that offers them better livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío, says director general María Esther Rivas. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need.”

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

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A seed vendor with his wares, near Islamabad, Pakistan. For improved crop varieties to reach the farmers who need them, they usually must first reach local vendors like these, who form an essential link in the chain between researchers, seed producers, and farmers.

Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT.

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In the seed processing plant at Bidasem, a gravity table is used to segregate seed by density, with the lowest-quality material being removed and sold for animal seed. After initial cleaning and sorting, all seed that goes through the plant passes through quality control. If a sample from a batch is found to more have more than 2% impurities, they are either separated out using a gravity table or by hand, depending on the size of the seed and the type of impurity. The batch is then resampled to ensure a clean bill of health to continue processing.

Bidasem is a small seed company based in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. It produces approximately 10,000 bags of maize seed a year, each holding 22.5kg, as well as producing wheat and oat seed and marketing seed of other crops. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in improving farmers’ livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need,” says director general María Esther Rivas.

“Without CIMMYT, we couldn’t exist,” says Rivas. She sells four different maize hybrids, all formed from freely-available CIMMYT parent lines. “Really the most important thing is to produce your own hybrids, and for us it wouldn’t be possible if we didn’t have the germplasm from CIMMYT. What we’re currently producing is 100% CIMMYT.” The relationship between Bidasem and CIMMYT is now deepening through participation in the MasAgro initiative, which includes training courses for seed companies and collaborative trials to evaluate the best seed.

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

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A baker makes fresh naan roti on a street stall in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. These are a type of traditional flatbread made with wheat flour.

Photo credit: S. Mojumder/Drik/CIMMYT.

For the latest on CIMMYT in Bangladesh, see CIMMYT's blog at: blog.cimmyt.org/?tag=bangladesh.

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Haulystic - supply chain

The Himalayan range is 1500 miles (2400 km) long, and runs 150-250 miles (240-400 km) deep. Except for the glaciers around the center of the range, most of the mountainous areas are lush and inhabitable, and people live as far up as 100 miles (150+ km) up the mountains.

An artery of paved roads provide vehicular interconnection to the hundreds of towns an villages. Daily convoys of vehicles like this are the supply chain that bring groceries, clothes, medicines, tools, machinery and other needful to the mountain towns and villages.

It is amazing how well this works - every day, these trucks negotiate the narrow mountain roads and constantly deal with adverse effects like landslides, floods and fallen trees. On this day, these trucks had stopped, waiting for a road block to clear up.

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The bright colors at small Mexican seed company Bidasem are reminiscent of children’s toys, but in fact the seed processing plant is busy, noisy, and highly-efficient. Here maize, wheat, and oat seed is cleaned, sorted, treated, and prepared for sale. After harvest, the seed is dried and stored in giant sacks ready for processing in batches.

Bidasem is a small seed company based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. Despite their small size, Bidasem and similar companies play an important role in reaching small farmers with improved seed that offers them better livelihoods. “Our aim is to provide farmers with quality seed at accessible prices, that is adapted to the conditions we have here in the Bajío, says director general María Esther Rivas. It’s a great satisfaction, when farmers achieve the yields they need.”

Photo credit: X. Fonseca/CIMMYT.

For more on seed production at Bidasem, and CIMMYT's role in providing the best seed, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story The seed chain: producing better seed for small farmers, available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/598-2012/1398-the-seed-chain....

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APRIL 14, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS

Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Simone D. McCourtie

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APRIL 14, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS

Incentivizing Inclusive and Sustainable Supply Chains

Voices from some of the world’s best-known apparel brands, experts in sustainability-linked finance, and other stakeholders discuss creating inclusive, sustainable, and climate-friendly supply chains.

Speakers: David R. Malpass, President, World Bank Group; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Directora General Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC); Hiroshi Matano, Executive Vice President, MIGA; Makhtar Diop, Managing Director, IFC; Catherine Chiu, Vice President, Corporate Quality & Sustainability, Crystal international Group Ltd.; Ebru Pakcan Managing Director, Head of Middle East & Africa Cluster, Citi; Daniel Fibiger, Head of Global Sustainability, Gap Inc, President of Gap Foundation; Priyamvada Singh, Global Head of Supply Chain Finance, SMBC. Host: Redi Tlhabi, International Newscaster. Photo: World Bank / Simone D. McCourtie

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