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RSPO Introduces Voluntary Advanced Add-On Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil
RSPO Introduces Voluntary Advanced Add-On Criteria for Sustainable Palm Oil
Published on February 16, 2016
About a 5 minute read

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has released new voluntary criteria that expand on its existing Principles & Criteria (P&C) for sustainable palm oil production. ... View More

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Supply Chain
Walmart's Smallholder Food Sourcing in China, Nicaragua Offer Multiple Lessons for Stakeholders
Walmart's Smallholder Food Sourcing in China, Nicaragua Offer Multiple Lessons for Stakeholders
Published on February 11, 2016
About a 5 minute read

Policymakers can learn about how the transformation of agricultural markets is likely to affect the poor in the developing world by studying Walmart, says a new report from the Global Food and Agriculture Program at the Chicago Council on Global Affa... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
5 Steps Every Food Retailer Should Take to Eliminate Food Waste
5 Steps Every Food Retailer Should Take to Eliminate Food Waste
Published on February 5, 2016
About a 5 minute read

Campaigners for action on food waste have had much to celebrate recently. The Rockefeller Foundation launched YieldWise, a $130 million initiative to tackle loss between farm and market and demonstrating how the world can halve food loss by 2030. Thi... View More

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Materials & PackagingMaterials & Packaging
Trending: Companies Turning to Big Data, Microbes to Help Increase Crop Yields
Trending: Companies Turning to Big Data, Microbes to Help Increase Crop Yields
Published on January 14, 2016
About a 3 minute read

Farmers in the United States could soon benefit from two new ways to increase crop yield that were announced this month.CropClimate is the latest use of big data to benefit agriculture. The web platform uses climate-, soil- and crop-modeling to link ... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-Creation
Mars Partnering to Improve Ag Development, Nutrition, Food Safety in India
Mars Partnering to Improve Ag Development, Nutrition, Food Safety in India
Published on January 8, 2016
About a 3 minute read

Malnutrition remains a significant global problem despite corporate and charitable efforts to fight it. Malnourishment results in the deaths of an estimated 2.6 million children each year – about a third of global child deaths. An estimated 221 mil... View More

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3rd Annual Real Food Media Contest Seeking Super-Short Films Focused on Fixing Food
3rd Annual Real Food Media Contest Seeking Super-Short Films Focused on Fixing Food
Published on December 29, 2015
About a 4 minute read

In the past two years, over 300 filmmakers from around the world have entered the Real Food Media Contest — the world’s largest competition for short films on food, farming and sustainability. This fall, Real Food Media launched its third-annual ... View More

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Local Giving, Global Impacts: The SB 2015 Holiday Gift Guide
Local Giving, Global Impacts: The SB 2015 Holiday Gift Guide
Published on December 18, 2015
About a 5 minute read

Sustainable products geeks rejoice, for 'tis once again the season of giving! And what better way to celebrate and participate than with gifts whose giving creates exponentially more cheer, health, beauty and financial stability while eliminating was... View More

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Materials & PackagingMaterials & Packaging
Trending: This Week in Upcycling – Champagne Packaging, Rice Waste, Yoga Mats
Trending: This Week in Upcycling – Champagne Packaging, Rice Waste, Yoga Mats
Published on December 18, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Upcycling is a great way to use waste to create new products and take the world one step closer to a circular economy. These companies are some of the latest to creatively incorporate the practice to optimize products while utilizing a variety of was... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-Creation
What Now? How Businesses Are Rallying to Action After COP21
What Now? How Businesses Are Rallying to Action After COP21
Published on December 17, 2015
About a 6 minute read

As evidenced by the unprecedented private-sector engagement in COP21 earlier this month, businesses globally get that they need to innovate (and improve!) their products, services and business models to combat climate change, resource scarcity and un... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-Creation
CI, Starbucks Aiming to Make Coffee World's First Sustainably Sourced Agricultural Product
CI, Starbucks Aiming to Make Coffee World's First Sustainably Sourced Agricultural Product
Published on December 7, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Conservation International (CI), in partnership with Ceres and industry leaders such as Starbucks and Keurig Green Mountain, have announced a call to action to make coffee the first sustainably sourced agricultural product in the world. The Sustainab... View More

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Supply Chain
The Dairy Industry’s Next Competitive Advantage: Saving Money and Building Better Products with Climate-Friendly Cows
The Dairy Industry’s Next Competitive Advantage: Saving Money and Building Better Products with Climate-Friendly Cows
Published on November 27, 2015
About a 5 minute read

A penguin and a cow walk into a bar. The cow says, "We have a problem. Every year cows emit so much methane into the atmosphere - the equivalent of fifty-times more CO2 than the entire country of Switzerland! It's killing our image. We don't kno... View More

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Consumer Behavior Change
Danone, Nestlé Lead on Zero Deforestation Commitments, But Many Firms Lagging
Danone, Nestlé Lead on Zero Deforestation Commitments, But Many Firms Lagging
Published on November 20, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Danone, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble and Unilever continue to lead the corporate sector in making and living up to zero-deforestation commitments, but many firms have yet to make public sustainability commitments, according to a new ranking by the G... View More

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What Really Matters is FiFo – Fish-in, Fish-out
What Really Matters is FiFo – Fish-in, Fish-out
Published on November 20, 2015
About a 5 minute read

Global food security is all about sourcing enough protein, on a genuinely sustainable basis, for a population in excess of nine billion people in the second half of this century. ... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Palm Oil Giant Commits to Help Indonesia Through Peatland Rehabilitation, Traceability
Palm Oil Giant Commits to Help Indonesia Through Peatland Rehabilitation, Traceability
Published on November 17, 2015
About a 4 minute read

On Monday, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), the world’s second-largest palm oil producer, launched a peatland rehabilitation project in Indonesia and committed to 100 percent traceability to mill by the end of 2015. ... View More

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Supply Chain
Local vs Global: How AB InBev Is Helping to Change the Debate
Local vs Global: How AB InBev Is Helping to Change the Debate
Published on November 4, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Here in Idaho, we’re the number one barley-producing US state. But how much of that barley (and the profits from it) remains in the state, or even in the region?This is the type of question advocates for sustainability ask. We want to buy local and... View More

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Consumer Behavior Change
Indonesia in Crisis: Fires Releasing More Emissions Than the Entire U.S. Economy
Indonesia in Crisis: Fires Releasing More Emissions Than the Entire U.S. Economy
Published on November 3, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Fires are raging across the 3,000 mile length of Indonesia, destroying tens of thousands of acres of forest. More than 127,000 forest fires have been detected so far this year, which is expected to be the worst on record. Visibility in some cities ha... View More

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Supply Chain
IKEA Says 100% of Its Cotton Now Comes from More Sustainable Sources
IKEA Says 100% of Its Cotton Now Comes from More Sustainable Sources
Published on November 2, 2015
About a 3 minute read

IKEA announced last week that as of September 2015, all cotton used for its products — from furniture to towels, bedding and other home textiles — comes from more sustainable sources; specifically from farmers that use less water, less chemical f... View More

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Community Updates
Mars Food Partners with the Sustainable Rice Platform
Mars Food Partners with the Sustainable Rice Platform
Published on November 2, 2015
About a 3 minute read

In much of the world, we take rice for granted. We’ve got canisters of it in our cupboards, and it’s readily available in our stores. Indeed, we can take it or leave it as part of our daily meals.But for billions of people around the globe, rice ... View More

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Community Updates
The UPS Foundation Sets Global Goal To Plant 15 Million Trees By The End Of 2020
The UPS Foundation Sets Global Goal To Plant 15 Million Trees By The End Of 2020
Published on October 28, 2015
About a 4 minute read

 Awards $2.5 million in environmental grants ... View More

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Community Updates
New enzyme cuts chemical use at ethanol plants by more than 70%
New enzyme cuts chemical use at ethanol plants by more than 70%
Published on October 27, 2015
About a 2 minute read

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