Geneva, 4 November 2020 – Today, the Global AgriBusiness Alliance (GAA), a sector project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched a new implementation toolkit on advancing human rights policy and practice in the agribusiness sector. Building on the recent release of the second edition of the CEO Guide to Human Rights, the new GAA […]
The Good Food For All Narrative is an initiative developed by the SDG2 Advocacy Hub with partners across civil society, UN Agencies and the private sector to reframe how we talk about Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), to complement SDG2’s current Zero Hunger frame. Good Food For All aims to create a fresh new way of speaking about the […]
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action (USFRA) , together with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) published a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Roadmap report to assess the opportunities for U.S. agriculture to continue driving a resilient and sustainable agricultural system while resiliently confronting new crises along the way. Established in 2015, the SDGs provide a […]
Geneva, 21 September 2020: On the same day as the UN General Assembly adopted its 75th Declaration that recognizes the urgent need for Member States to act to protect our planet and build back better, more than 560 companies with combined revenue of USD $4 trillion – including WBCSD members, EDF, Firmenich, Hitachi, IKEA, Microsoft, Natura […]
Momentum to reverse nature loss is growing, but there is still a long way to go
The new WBCSD progress report supports businesses to make balanced assessments of the sustainability and health impacts of different animal and plant protein products and production methods. Geneva, 18 August 2020 – Today, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched the Protein Impact Framework, a progress report supporting businesses to make balanced assessments of the sustainability […]
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, in collaboration with the United Nations Rome-based Agencies, will convene the Food Systems Summit in 2021, as a critical contribution to the Decade of Action to deliver the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Smallholder farmers are a crucial part of the food value chain in India, as well as a critical element of the global food system.
Applying business-driven solution spaces to the prioritization of collective action on and beyond proteins
The following text and images are from a personal blog post from WBCSD’s Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) Manager Nicoletta Pavese where she shares her journey in connecting with soy producers in the Western Bahia State