Our Sector Directors and trusted experts bring a deep understanding of diverse industries and their unique opportunities.

In our 2024-2025 Impact Report, they share their thoughts on what mattered most in this reporting year, and what your business should be ready for in 2026.

Here, Sector Director Helen Mant shares her thoughts on Agriculture. 

As I reflect on 2025, my view is that it has been a time of uncertainty for the agricultural sector.

Insecurity around global tariff levels for food commodities exported to the US brought significant price volatility.

Alongside the familiar challenges of weather and pests, this creates risk in value chains and complicates buying decisions.

Volatility often hits the most vulnerable in the value chain hardest through irregular working hours, excessive overtime and low wages.

In 2026 my team and I will continue delivering deep dive impact assessments to identify issues through meaningful engagement with rightsholders, and bringing their perspectives to the boardroom. We are increasingly supporting companies to address prioritised issues through targeted programmes that deliver impact where it is most needed, within the commercial realities of global supply chains.

My team’s key focus areas include:

• improving livelihoods and living incomes to reduce levels of Child Labour in global agricultural value chains effectively
• integrating the voices of indigenous people in every stage – as landowners, co–developers/beneficiaries of nature based solutions, or workers
• helping companies understand sourcing from conflict affected areas, including links to conflict actors; governance; and action planning that informs decisions about retaining, changing or ending sourcing relationships

With continued uncertainty in global supply chains, we are supporting our clients to develop resilient supply chains that address key issues such as Child Labour and its root causes, and embedding HREDD through robust governance, comprehensive monitoring, and transparent reporting.

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Read more sector perspectives in the twentyfifty 2024-2025 Impact Report

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