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June 1, 2022 27 mins

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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