Sustainable Development

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals

Seven Key Learnings for Corporate Partnership Leads in 2019

While partnerships will always vary, one constant you can be sure of is that every new partnership is a learning opportunity. Our new venture with Tesco has been no exception. From collaboration to creativity, here are some of the key principles we learned as we went through the process.​
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Skoll World Forum 2019 Ecosystem Event

This Skoll World Forum 2019 Ecosystem jointly hosted by Acumen and Business Fights Poverty and sponsored by Hershey, will explore how corporations, social enterprises,
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How Can Business Partner to Drive Responsible Sourcing?

Join this online discussion to dive into the challenges of responsible sourcing, the impacts to business and society when done well, and not so
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How Can Business Partner to Drive Responsible Sourcing?

Join us as we explore how businesses are forging partnerships with others to make the sourcing of food and agriculture sustainable, inclusive and a force for good. This live written discussion will take place on Thursday 25 April 15:00 BST / 10:00 EDT
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How Root Capital and the IKEA Foundation are Building the Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in East Africa

Root Capital and the IKEA Foundation are announcing a €4.8 million partnership to help 260,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda increase their income and adapt to climate change. Together with hundreds of small and growing agricultural businesses, this partnership will build the resilience of rural communities to both market and environmental shocks.
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Re-Imagining the Gender Balance for Female Cotton Farmers

Through our purpose to ‘Re-imagine Global Agriculture’, Olam aims to address the many challenges involved in meeting the needs of a growing global population, while achieving positive impact for farming communities, our planet and shareholders.
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How Can We Produce Enough Protein to Feed 10 Billion People?

The world has a long path to travel to provide its growing population with the quantity and quality of protein needed, at affordable prices and in a manner that is both sustainable and optimal for health. A year of research and dialogue among stakeholders of the World Economic Forum has begun to suggest a four-part roadmap for making this future of protein a possibility.
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Towards Solving the SDG’s Funding Gap: UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative

The UN Environment Finance Initiative’s (UNEP FI) Global Roundtable took place in Paris recently, an event dedicated to mobilising the financial sector to deliver a sustainable financial system. UNEP FI’s Positive Impact Initiative, “Rethinking Impact to finance the SDGs”, was launched, and explores avenues to closing the SDGs funding gap. ​
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Partnerships – All Talk and No Action?

​Does the cost and complexity of partnerships mean that most organisations should focus more, and collaborate less?
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Dr Donal Brown CBE

Donal Brown is arguably a good man to have in a crisis. Having been awarded his CBE for leading the UK taskforce during the devastating Ebola outbreak in 2014,  he is now turning his attention to climate resilience for small holder farmers in some of our poorest regions.
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Making a Difference on World Toilet Day 2018: Solving the Sanitation Challenge Through Partnerships

Tokyo based LIXIL, maker of pioneering water and housing products, believes that creating solutions for the 2.3 billion people that still don’t have access to basic sanitation is an opportunity to solve one of the world’s greatest social challenges, and to do so sustainably by helping to develop a future market.
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Toilets and Trigger Points: How Can We Unlock the Financial Viability of Sanitation Businesses?

Market-based solutions to sanitation can make a huge difference to the lives of the poorest urban citizens. Creating financially viable businesses is challenging, but the sector has taken real steps forward. This blog presents examples of how we can unlock the potential of the private sector to help drive progress.
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Toilets, Not Poverty Traps

Who will step up to address the very real liquidity gap that stands between poor households and their first toilet in Cambodia? iDE believes that local, friendly latrine businesses are best placed to provide non-interest bearing payment facilitation to households in their community. Read how iDE is seeking to unlock this sanitation supply-led financing at a larger scale.
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Businesses and Sustainability Standards Empowering Women in Supply Chains

Eleanor Radford of ISEAL, reflects on the women’s equity and inclusive business session at the recent Business Fights Poverty Oxford Conference. How do we can create change throughout the value chain? From getting a better representation of women on executive boards, to empowering women in the workplace.
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Building Scalable and Self-Sustaining Safe Water Enterprises

Jon Shepard shares why he see grounds for optimism in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goal of equitable access to safe, affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In particular the growing number of impact entrepreneurs who are innovating new models for the scalable and sustainable provision of safe water in underserved communities.
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The Global Sanitation Crisis Presents Lucrative Business Opportunities

At the recent World Water Week 2018, the Toilet Board Coalition explored the commercial and social impact opportunities for businesses willing to engage in the sanitation crisis. What exactly is the sanitation economy? And what role can business and government play?
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Animal Medicine on the Move: Delivering Agro-Vet Services to Pastoralists

TechnoServe share insights from their Innovation in Outcome Measurement (IOM) project— a two-year program to develop and test cheaper, better, and faster ways of collecting key agricultural data— partnered with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Kenya Markets Trust (KMT) to evaluate creative new ways of providing commercial agro-vet services to pastoralists.
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From the Ground Up: How Soil-testing Can Help Predict Return-on-investment for African Farmers

As one of the most cited reasons for variations in yields, soil fertility and the ability to improve and manage it is key to the success of a smallholder. Tecnhoserve share their experience of boosting Maize yields in Kenya and how soil-testing can help predict return-on-investment for African farmers
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How are Sustainability Standards Innovating to Address the Needs of Certified Small Producers?

This year, ISEAL headed into the field to talk to certified small producers about the issues they face, their expectations of certification and their experiences with sustainability standards. In a new report, we outline the key challenges facing producers and suggest opportunities for standards to innovate to meet these needs.
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Walking Beyond Tokenism

The link between Fair trade and climate change is complex but interconnected. By subscribing to the former, you help alleviate the effects of the latter. Pushpanath Krishnamurthy has taken 30 million steps in support of climate justice and the fairtrade movement. Read about his remarkable journey so far.
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