Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture to Reduce Poverty

Fairtrade products in Kaufland

Five Reasons Why Fairtrade Remains the #1 Ethical Consumer Choice

Research in 12 countries by GlobeScan for Fairtrade suggests rising food prices haven’t deterred the majority of shoppers from paying a bit more for a Fairtrade product. Many people still put ethical considerations high on their list when they go to the supermarket. Here are five good reasons why.
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Food Technology Can Feed the World, So Says Social Impact Pioneer Donna Rosa

Donna’s high-flying career in food technology and nutritional science would have been enough for most of us. Instead, Donna then switched to helping entrepreneurs in emerging markets be more successful and scale their business. If nothing else this conversation is an inspiring journey revealing that a combination of science, technology, and business expertise can create positive social impact in the world.
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Understanding Local Markets Can Create Green Jobs and Improved Livelihoods in African Cities

The transition to a green economy offers the prospect of an improved environment and better livelihoods. But unlocking that opportunity requires understanding local markets and economic incentives.
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Scaling Green Tech Solutions for Smallholder Farmers: Insights from a Ghanaian Female Entrepreneur and an Africa and Middle East regional female leader in finance.

Scaling Green Tech Solutions for Smallholder Farmers, with Audrey and Khadija

Are you ready to learn from a young female entrepreneur from Ghana and an Africa and Middle East female finance leader from Pakistan who are passionate about the way we approach green tech solutions and improve incomes for smallholder farmers? Then buckle up and tune into this podcast featuring Social Impact Pioneers Audrey S-Darko and Khadija Hashimi
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Mung bean farmer, Wendeilina in Malaka, Timor Island, Indonesia.

From Zero to Hero: Establishing the Commercial Mung Bean Sector in Indonesia

Commercialising high yielding mung bean seeds in Indonesia required a collaboration between government and the private sector. PRISMA CEO, Nina FitzSimons, explains how it happened and the role of the market systems development program in facilitating the collaboration.
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Gender Parity in Farming with Taryn and Emily

This podcast hears from Social Impact Pioneers: Emily Janoch from the NGO CARE and Taryn Barclay from multi-national company Cargill. Together they talk deeply about why women are critical to prosperous food supply chains, what difference it would make if we take women seriously in the agricultural sector and how supporting women and their communities is essential for long term sustainability.
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How Can We Create Food Security and Ensure Strong Farmer Livelihoods?

Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore how we can create food security and ensure strong farmer
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How Can We Create Food Security and Ensure Strong Farmer Livelihoods?

Join us for this live written discussion with a panel of experts to explore what role businesses can play in addressing the social and equity dimensions of climate change. The live panel is taking places on Wednesday 25th October 2023, 10am to 11am EST / 3pm to 4 pm GMT
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Women Smallholders Will Drive Africa’s Transition to Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture improves the soil, traps carbon emissions and lifts farmers out of poverty. 80% of Kenya’s smallholder farmers are women, which is why Hand in Hand’s regenerative agriculture curriculum places women at its core. The organisation aims to reach one in 20 Kenyan farmers in the next five years.
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Millers Change the Game for Food Fortification

Davos event calls on private and public sector actors to support, empower and reward millers who fortify commonly consumed staple foods with essential micronutrients
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Seafood’s Social Justice Problem: How to Better Share the Benefits of Aquatic Foods

The pursuit of profit has left the global fish and seafood sector – the world’s fastest growing food-producing industry – in disarray. Facing unsustainable growth and undermined social justice, the sector must work to ensure the socioeconomic benefits of aquatic – or blue – foods are equitably unlocked for all.
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Rohtak, Haryana, India – September 11, 2013: Female farmer of Indian ethnicity standing portrait near cotton crop field.

Women Cotton Farmers and Climate Solutions

CottonConnect believe that climate adaptation and mitigation are more effective when women are involved. Given the right training, skills and tools, women tend to make more sustainable decisions. They bring holistic change to communities and drive progress. When elevated to a decision-making position, women encourage better climate governance and more climate innovation.
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Walking for Climate Justice: Community Voices Share their Desperation and Sparks of Hope.

I am a climate activist – and I walk. In the last 11 years I have walked over 35 million steps in the name of climate action. And in that time, I meet people and I listen. During the climate conference of 2022, instead of walking in Egypt, I walked with communities in Zambia, and I listened. This is a story of what I heard.
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Food Security and Climate Change, with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru

Food Security and Climate Change, with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru

Hear from Social Impact Pioneer Aled Jones. Aled is an eighth-generation farmer and the President of the National Farmers Union Cymru – the leading agricultural organisation that represents and champions all farmers and growers in Wales.
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Malnutrition is a Business Issue, Explain Maniza and Alok

Malnutrition is a business issue. The link between malnutrition and poverty might be an obvious one. The links between malnutrition and business are perhaps less so. During this conversation we are going to deep dive into both, whilst looking at the intersections between nutrition, climate change, conflict and communicable disease.
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How Farmer Segmentation Can Strengthen Supply Chains and Better Support Smallholder Farmers

In a new report from the Farmer Income Lab and Business Fights Poverty, we provide more information about Farmer segmentation and how procuring companies and smallholder farmers can benefit from a segmentation approach.
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Farmers Hold the Key to the Climate Crisis – If Only World Leaders at COP27 Would Listen

The world’s smallholder farmers and agricultural workers are ready, willing, and able to help confront climate change where it matters most, protecting their communities, preserving their livelihoods, and safeguarding our planet’s food supply. Nevertheless, the question remains: are our leaders willing to let them?
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Palm Oil and Climate Justice with Anita Neville

Palm oil and climate justice – what is the story? Social impact pioneer, Anita Neville, helps us unpack this complex topic. This podcast forms part of a series – examining how business addresses climate justice.
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Climate Conferences with Obed Koringo

How do climate conferences work? Hear from social impact pioneer Obed Koringo, part of the CARE delegation at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Obed shares how governments, negotiators, civil society, businesses and other stakeholders all work together to help move along global climate commitments and drive actions towards better climate outcomes for all.
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Why Businesses Must Focus on Putting People at the Heart of Climate Action Strategies

We’ve heard many pledges by businesses and governments to go further, create real and lasting change in cocoa supply chains, and ensure a better future for farming communities and our climate. However, turning those promises into action remains a challenge.
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What do we mean by "Agriculture"?

Discover how sustainable agriculture techniques can reduce poverty by promoting environmental health and increasing food security.

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