The private sector is responsible for almost all the food produced, sold and consumed globally. Therefore, businesses have a central role to play in improving food production and consumption patterns worldwide.
As part of its work to update its Vision 2050, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is releasing an issue brief advocating that now is the time for companies and investors to enter – and lead – the debate, not just about why capitalism needs to change, but about how we go about transforming it.
On October 9, 2020 WWF launched the report “Bending the Curve: The Restorative Power of Planet-Based diets” as well as an online Planet-Based Diets platform to increase the understanding of the impact of dietary choices at the national level.
In collaboration with Guidehouse, we have launched the “Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) 2020 – Summary for business” to support business assess the implications of the CEAP 2020 on their activities and facilitate their transition to circular economy.
Objectives of the toolkit Download the toolkit here. For those implementing the toolkit within their agribusiness operations, a trainer guidance note and customizable slide deck for (…)
Over the last year, COVID-19 has dramatically altered our lives with a swiftness and ferocity not seen before – at least in most of our lifetimes. It has upended personal lives and financial markets, challenged the fundamentals of how companies operate and triggered a re-evaluation of long-held assumptions about the global economy.
Resilience thinking is by its nature strategic, as it supports and drives fundamental questions on how systems and companies are organized to deliver utility, how they might anticipate, respond and adapt to change and disruption, and how they might drive new business models and ways of meeting society’s needs.
This paper summarizes the discussion and emerging solutions spaces for business to provoke initial discussion and feedback.
The fifth Global Biodiversity Outlook report published by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in September 2020, warns starkly that the world has so far failed to halt the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems.
This report establishes that U.S. agriculture is accelerating global progress toward all 17 SDGs, and can have an outsized positive impact on a core group of seven.