Hemp Production in Impoverished Rural Communities

<p>Join Mandi Kerr and Natasha Wallace on this episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward, Hemp Production in Impoverished Rural Communities. &nbsp;Natosha Wallace, MBA &nbsp;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&nbsp;</p> <p>1. Building relations across the value chain,&nbsp;</p> <p>2. GAP education,&nbsp;</p> <p>3. Quality resource development, and sourcing (i.e., certified seedlings, organic pest, disease mitigation, etc.),&nbsp;</p> <p>4. Developing and educating farmers on risk management and oversight (KRI, KPIs, controls, testing)&nbsp;</p> <p>5. Scaling, Diversifying, By-product development 6. Focusing on continuous improvement ensuring sustainability&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;For this morning we’ll talk about: &nbsp;</p> <p>1. Hemp production in impoverished rural communities&nbsp;</p> <p>2. Processing&nbsp;</p> <p>3. Funding for nonprofit work</p> <p>&nbsp;4. By-product development and trade skill training to create new businesses and jobs; future trade opportunities for impoverished communities coming to market&nbsp;</p> <p>5. working with the government</p> <p>&nbsp;6. risk management</p>