Women’s Entrepreneurship Day highlights a critical truth: empowering women entrepreneurs is essential for global economic growth. Despite driving innovation and community resilience, women still face systemic barriers to finance, digital access, networks, and safety. Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is not only a moral imperative—it is a powerful economic strategy with transformative potential.
Business Fights Poverty explores how companies can link social and environmental impact to drive a fairer, more resilient future. Using insights from the 5 Bridges to 2045 framework and Natura’s pioneering Integrated Profit & Loss (iP&L) model, this article shows how valuing natural, social, and human capital can transform decision-making, performance, and long-term sustainability.
As climate risks intensify across global agriculture, Bonsucro and partners are expanding the Climate Resilience Platform (CRP) to equip farmers with actionable, science-based tools. Through open-access collaboration with CGIAR, Better Cotton, and leading research organisations, the initiative empowers producers to anticipate climate impacts, strengthen livelihoods, and accelerate resilient, sustainable supply chains across the world.
IDH shares its top 10 lessons from convening landscape initiatives for the last 10 years. The results across a range of landscapes show that greater impact can be achieved together. The cost and risk sharing that landscape approaches allow makes them more relevant to agri-food businesses as physical supply risks from extreme weather increase.
This year’s COP30 conference is shining a light on the importance of the Amazon rainforest. Evidence from Peru highlights the critical role that economic opportunity must play in Amazon conservation–and how investment can help to unlock them.
This article follows a 2,700-kilometre motorhome journey to COP30, where Fundação Dom Cabral and partners used the road as a living climate laboratory. Crossing four biomes and nine cities, the team gathered real-world evidence on resilience, local innovation, and community risks, offering business and city leaders practical lessons for climate action and resilient development.
Written from a riverboat en route to COP30, this unique article explores how business leaders can draw practical, investable lessons from the Amazon. It urges companies to link emissions goals with local livelihoods, co-create with communities, and view nature as infrastructure. A powerful reminder that regeneration must be built from the ground up.
The UK Government invites Business Fights Poverty members to contribute to a National Baseline Assessment of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Led by Nottingham Rights Lab, the survey and consultation explore government and business efforts to protect and respect human rights. Responses are welcome until 14 November 2025.
At this year’s Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit, a number of sessions turned their attention to the launch of our new Five Bridges to 2045: How Business Can Build a Fairer, More Resilient Future. Eighteen experts from our global network took part in online sessions and an in-person event hosted with Barclays in New York, where representatives from Ikea, Natura, Vodafone Foundation, ABF Sugar and Fundación Paraguaya shared their perspectives on how to bring the report’s vision of embedding social impact and sustainability into core business closer to reality.
As globalisation widened the gap between corporations and communities, CSR often became marketing gloss. “CSR 2.0” calls for a systemic approach that embeds social impact into commercial strategy—aligning profit with purpose. By addressing beyond-the-firm constraints and fostering inclusive growth, businesses can turn responsibility into resilience, competitiveness, and genuine poverty reduction.
Accelerators are touted as engines of SME growth. Yet most target established businesses, leaving low-income women behind. Hand in Hand’s grassroots accelerator proves their potential: over 8,000 women have scaled businesses, boosting incomes, creating jobs, and lifting families well beyond the poverty line. Amalia Johnsson, Hand in Hand International CEO, explains why inclusive growth demands we accelerate women too.
Watch this Workshop with Walmart to explore how to expand MSME growth opportunities in the face of disruption. We examine strategies for strengthening local
Challenging stereotypes through marketing isn’t just good ethics—it’s smart business. With global ad spend nearing $2 trillion, brands have immense power to shift harmful beliefs. This article explores how inclusive communications can reduce discrimination, boost ROI, and unlock competitive advantage—if businesses act now, before the window of opportunity closes.
Innovation thrives when knowledge is shared. In this piece, Chris Lawrence explores how open learning—rooted in humility, transparency, and collective wisdom—can unlock solutions to global challenges. Moving beyond open source technology, he argues for a business philosophy that values shared experience and human connection to foster lasting social impact and inclusive innovation.
