Sustainable Development

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals

VIDEO: How can companies ensure they have a positive relationship with the world around them?

Members of the Business Fights Poverty network share their insights through a series of “how-to” videos on the themes of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020. In this video Cristianne Close, Global Practice Leader, Markets, at WWF looks at how companies can ensure they have a positive relationship with nature and at the same time help to address other problems like poverty
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Peg Willingham

Peg Willingham is the Executive Director of Fairtrade America. Fairtrade’s mission to work with businesses, farmers and workers certifying products as ethically and sustainably sourced is more important than ever. Listen to this podcast to hear Peg share her insights of the compounded effects of COVID-19 on many of the world’s poorest farmers;
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If it is broke, do fix it Rebuilding better agriculture and food systems – and what business can do to help

From Europe to the US and beyond, coronavirus exposed huge vulnerabilities in systems worldwide. Nowhere was the damage more keenly felt than in developing countries, where incomes disappeared, savings soon followed, and food security cratered seemingly overnight. The livelihoods that Covid-19 broke so quickly will take years to rebuild, just as they did the first time. Given how readily they crumbled, can we afford the build them back the same?
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Upcoming Online Event: Tackling Poverty in Global Value Chains

As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Mars, AB InBev, Oxfam and UNDP will share insights from their establishment of The Farmer Income Lab, a collaborative “think-do-tank”, that aims to ask the right questions, create solutions and inspire action to build global supply chains that work for farmers and for business. This article provides an introduction to the founding and initial insights of the Farmer Income Lab, which will be further explored in the online session.
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Upcoming Online Event: Nature and Its Value to International Supply Chains

As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020, Business Fights Poverty and Standard Chartered are convening a webinar and online peer discussion to explore how we can account for, invest in and enhance the value of nature present in supply chains. This article delves into nature’s benefits to international supply chains, and examines one initiative that is seeking to align commercial and environmental imperatives: the ‘Soft Commodities Compact’. 
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Don’t simply restart the engine; building back better means re-tooling

Not only has the Covid-19 pandemic affected our health and personal lives, it has also and continues to, fundamentally challenge our political, social, and economic norms. Most notably it has impacted how many of us think about tackling the big issues like climate change. In this article we will talk about the similarities and differences in tackling this big issue. We will also discuss how, as we continue to emerge out of lockdown, we need to start to re-tool in order to build back better, rather than simply restarting the engines again.
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Air Quality: A breath of fresh air

Today, 91% of the world’s population inhabits places where air quality fails to meet World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness surrounding the costs of air pollution, while global lockdowns have improved air quality temporarily. With WHO air quality guidelines set to be updated this year, a new report by Barclays Research analysts explores the actions required to effect long-term change in the air we breathe and the associated investment opportunities.
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Strange Bedfellows or Logical Partners? Collaboration Between the Agriculture and Mining Sectors to ‘Build Forward Better’

Following the panel discussion on Cross-Sector Collaboration at Business Fights Poverty Online 2020, the Global Agribusiness Alliance at WBCSD and the International Council on Mining and Metals share some reflections.
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Evaluation gaps, challenges and implications: Responsible business initiatives for sustainable supply chains?

Evidence on voluntary sustainability standards effectiveness and impact is strengthening, but little evidence exists on the efficacy of growing numbers of Responsible Business Initiatives (RBIs) which focus on entire corporate sustainability. Some are mature (e.g. corporate codes), others are more recent (e.g. sectoral multi-stakeholder initiatives, supplier capacity strengthening approaches, benchmarking initiatives, mobilizing investors). But quality evidence and rigorous synthesis is generally very thin across the board.
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The data revolution must accelerate food sustainability

Mobile payment systems, artificial intelligence, blockchain—such digital innovations have exploded in the last few years, and with good reason. Their capacity to harness vast amounts of data means they can improve transparency and decision-making for all kinds of industries—not least of all, for food production.
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The Cost of Cash to Ghana’s Cocoa Sector

Ghana is among the world’s leaders in the use of mobile money, but shockingly, the cocoa sector still pays upwards of 7 billion cedis (US$1.2 billion) every year in cash and checks to purchasing clerks, who then transfer it to farmers in cash. This means over 90% of the farmer transactions are still made in cash. Our organizations have released today new analysis showing that the costs and risk of cash to the cocoa sector are valued at more than $20 million every year, or more than 20% of turnover for all LBCs.
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Fairtrade and the COVID-19 response – lessons for business and the food system

The rapid spread of COVID-19 and the resulting global restrictions, challenged everyone involved in the production of food all over the world. Fairtrade is no exception, working as we do with over 1.6 million farmers and workers supplying the UK’s supermarkets.
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How to Safeguard the Livelihoods of Women Farmers and Entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Among its many impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to reverse recent gains to women’s economic empowerment. This article by TechnoServe Gender Director Cristina Manfre presents a strategy to ensure that the global community’s response to the pandemic safeguards against the risks to women’s livelihoods and enables them to help lead the economic recovery.
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Youth Perspectives on Our Future Economy

As part of Business Fights Poverty Online 2020, we teamed up with youth from around the world from the Economy of Francesco to organise a co-creative session dedicated to imagining and evaluating future economic models and to begin to co-create our future together.
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Three ways sustainable supply chains can help build better business in a COVID-19 world 

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world in profound and unexpected ways. The jury is still out on how severe and lasting the economic damage will be, or whether the pandemic will spur urgently needed action on climate change, rising inequality and sustainable development. One thing we can all agree on is that “normal” will look different going forward.  
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What smallholder cotton farmers need to build financial and agricultural resilience

Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, what actions can be taken by businesses, governments and supply chain partners to build resilience in smallholder cotton farmers to withstand future shocks? CottonConnect asked farmers in India and Pakistan what they needed, and makes recommendations for increasing agricultural, financial and market linkage resilience.
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Which supermarkets are doing the most to protect the rights of food workers?

As the Coronavirus pandemic drives home the importance of the frontline workers producing and supplying our food, Oxfam’s Behind the Barcodes campaign to improve the conditions of people in supermarket supply chains is more relevant than ever.
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New Ways of Thinking, Convening, Leading

WWF is supporting the Business for Nature Coalition in convening a major global leadership event on 15 June to address the vital role of nature in building a resilient future for everyone. This unique virtual event will bring together CEOs from five large multinational companies with the heads of key UN institutions in exactly the type of conversation and collaboration we need to grow in the coming months.
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Fairtrade Calls for Full Sector Response to Shore up Cocoa Farmer’s Livelihoods Through the Crisis

I am really pleased to announce that, this week, we’ve launched our Cocoa Sustainable Livelihoods Landscape Study. Co-authored by Naomi Somerville-Large and Antonio Capillo at the Fairtrade Foundation, this study is published as part of our partnership with Cocoa Life – Mondelēz International’s global cocoa sustainability programme. 
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Rebuild Better: How to Support Farmers and Workers Through the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for nations to ensure that the recovery plan for the Covid 19 crisis creates a fairer, more sustainable world, with six green ambitions at the heart of his proposed strategy. With nation states jostling up against each other it’s unclear how the new power dynamics will look once the dust has settled, and what the appetite or potential might be for this kind of unprecedented shared effort.
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