UK-based footwear brand Vivobarefoot has noted its efforts to trace its supply chains has had the most success with leather, where it has mapped material to a group of farms in Thailand.

In its end of year 2023 report, it noted leather is one of its most used materials, making up 11% of the total. Most of this is classed as “wild hides”, or leather made from free-roaming cattle raised by independent smallholder farmers. 

In Asia, it uses leather from Interhides in Thailand, sourcing skins from farms near Bangkok. It is working on a project to tag the hides so it can trace them to individual farms.

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