Leveraging Sustainable Markets for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development

Only through access to credible and independent information can less-developed country stakeholders build strategies to benefit from Voluntary Sustainability Standards.

This brochure details the scope of IISD’s Leveraging Sustainable Markets for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development project, which aims to facilitate poverty reduction among marginalized commodity producers by enabling more strategic and proactive entry into sustainable markets in less-developed countries. 

It also provides a brief history of the State of Sustainability Initiatives project from 2008 to 2018.