Join Mandi Kerr and Natasha Wallace on this episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward, Hemp Production in Impoverished Rural Communities. Natosha Wallace, MBA has 20 years in Banking Risk Management - building enterprise and global risk management programs in response to regulatory reform. She is educating executives and employees on proactive risk management; identifying risk and controls; operational, regulatory, third party, business continuity, disaster recovery, IT, mergers and acquisitions, project risk management experience; lean six sigma/business process improvement. Natosha uses transferable knowledge to help develop sustainable farming practices through
1. Building relations across the value chain,
2. GAP education,
3. Quality resource development, and sourcing (i.e., certified seedlings, organic pest, disease mitigation, etc.),
4. Developing and educating farmers on risk management and oversight (KRI, KPIs, controls, testing)
5. Scaling, Diversifying, By-product development 6. Focusing on continuous improvement ensuring sustainability
For this morning we’ll talk about:
1. Hemp production in impoverished rural communities
2. Processing
3. Funding for nonprofit work
4. By-product development and trade skill training to create new businesses and jobs; future trade opportunities for impoverished communities coming to market
5. working with the government
6. risk management
