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Linking Worlds New Business Models for Sustainable Trade
This paper has been prepared by Bill Vorley (IIED), Shaun Ferris (CRS), Don Seville (SFL) and Mark Lundy (CIAT), as part of the New Business Models for Sustainable Trading Relations project, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Rainforest Alliance. Further support from Cordaid, Netherlands is also gratefully acknowledged. The paper has also benefited from comments on an earlier draft on by Edward Millard (Rainforest Alliance), and concepts being developed by IIEDs Sustainable Markets Group.
Operationalizing Sustainability in Value Chains
Chapter 1: Why we need Metrics and why Metrics are Dangerous, Jon Johnson, University of Arkansas and Sustainability Consortium, Hal Hamilton, Sustainable Food Lab, Peter Senge, MIT and SoL
A “Metrics in Action” workshop in late 2009 supported collaboration among metrics initiatives in dairy, specialty crops and commodities. The workshop also generated insights about how sustainability indicators become operational in value chains. This draft paper by Jon Johnson, Peter Senge and Hal Hamilton outlines these insights and frames a body of ongoing work connecting business school case writers, educators of MBA students, professional education of executives, and peer learning among businesses and NGOs putting sustainability into action. The authors welcome your feedback to the paper and your engagement as we further develop both research and capacity building.
Report on Food Company Sustainability Commitments, August 2009
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The Sustainable Food Lab and Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) collaborated on development of A Short Guide to Sustainable Agriculture.
The intention of this booklet is to give an easy understanding of sustainable agriculture and its main issues. It will be useful particularly for people curious about the business case for sustainable agriculture.
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Papers
2008
- Renewable Energy Prospects in Haiti's Nord-Est Department, Rosalie Ray, Judith Cardell, Smith College, October 2008.
- Literature Review of Methods and Tools for Quantifying the Indirect Environmental Impacts of Food Procurement, produced for Clean Air-Cool Planet, September 2008.
- Agrifood Industry Transformation & Small Farmers in Developing Countries, Reardon, T., C.B. Barrett, J.A. Berdegué, and J.F.M. Swinnen. Forthcoming. World Development, International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Techonology for Development. September, 2008.
- Yesterday’s dinner, tomorrow’s weather, today’s news? US newspaper coverage of food system contributions to climate change, Roni A Neff, Iris L Chan and Katherine Clegg Smith, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, July 2008.
- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Agri-Food Sector: Harnessing Innovation for Sustainable Development. Report prepared for the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, March 2008.
2007
- The Language of Power and the Language of Love, by Adam Kahane in Reflections, SoL Journal on Knowledge, Learning and Change, Vol 8 no. 3, 2007
- Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) released a new report on the initiatives taken by over a hundred U.S. hospitals to source healthier and more sustainably produced food for patients. The Healthy Food in Health Care report details actions taken by 127 facilities in 21 states, June, 2008.
- The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) published a paper on, Trading Practices for a Sustainable Coffee Sector, Context, Strategies and Recommendations for Action by Jason Potts and others, 2007
- Assessing Smallholder Participation in the French Bean Supply Chain in Guatemala (The Juan Francisco Project). A CIAT report, October 2007.
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