Climate Change & Creating Sustainable Supply Chains: What It Will Take w/Josef Brinckmann

Climate Change and Developing Sustainable Harvesting Practices

Wilson Lau, and Josef Brinckmann, Traditional Medicinals, Vice President of Sustainability talk about climate change, growing herbs, and building a sustainable supply chain. According to Josef, sustainability begins with evaluating and understanding what is needed most to sustain and improve your supply chain.

1:30: What do you consider to be a sustainable herbal supply chain? What goes into those considerations?

4:30: Sustainability is about not causing detriment to the places you operate in. It also means you’re paying fair wages and people are making a livelihood.

8:30: Site selection is extremely important.

9:30: Case study on Sustainability and Licorice.

13:00: Risk Mitigation in the supply chain and having multiple suppliers to deal with climate change and other geo/political factors.

14:30: Developing New Sourcing Practices: Closed-Loop Supply Chain, Diversification, Source-to-Shelf

17:32: Climate change, changes in plant growth patterns, and plant/ingredient chemistry.

19:00: Do we need to carry larger quantities of ingredients to combat availability issues?

20:30: What to consider in long term storage and maintaining potency.

23:20: Planning long term crop availability.

26:00: Other Climate Change Considerations:

1. Social responsibility
2. Conservation on a global scale; implemented at the local level
3. We all have to do better
4. Investing in sustainability

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