Former Kellogg VP and CSO Amy Senter joins WBCSD in New York
Amy Senter, former vice president and Chief Sustainability Officer for the Kellogg Company, has joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).
Tag: Agriculture and Food
All roads lead to Rome: a Pre-Summit towards an equitable, net-zero and nature-positive food system
This article is based on the speech WBCSD President & CEO Peter Bakker gave on 26 July 2021 at the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit, during the opening plenary “A Bold Ambition to Improve Food Systems”.
Staple Crop Diversification Paper
Food systems heavily rely on five key commodities (wheat, rice, maize, potatoes, and soy), with the global calorie production concentrated around a limited set of commodity crops grown using intensive methods in a small number of breadbasket regions.
Vision 2050 Food Pathway: We can provide healthy diets for all
Our world is facing three pressing global challenges: the climate emergency, nature in crisis and mounting inequality.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2021)
Hunger has been on the rise for the past few years but the SOFI2021 report shows that numbers have dramatically worsened, with about one tenth of the global population undernourished in 2020, equating to around 811 million people.
Chapter on policy recommendations from a production and equity perspective
The Food and Agriculture Roadmap serves as the implementation plan for WBCSD’s CEO Guide to Food System Transformation by setting out the overarching transformational targets, key action areas and business-led solutions required to achieve environmental sustainability, equitable livelihoods, and healthy and sustainable diets for all.
Chapter on Transformative Agriculture
The Transformative Agriculture chapter of the Roadmap provides a common narrative, identifies gaps, and highlight new opportunities for bold private sector action around five transformational targets corresponding to the body of work developed by the Scaling Positive Agriculture project to maximize the potential of agriculture as a solution for climate, nature and farmers.
Human rights in the forest sector: leaving no one behind.
This is the third of a series of blogs from the members of WBCSD’s Forest Solutions Group (FSG) presenting diverse perspectives on the forest sector’s many connections with key global development issues.
Advancing business understanding of “nature positive”
The term “nature-positive” is rapidly emerging as a rallying call, “a north star”, to guide action and to transform business.
Retailers join forces to tackle climate change in the Race to Zero
Retailers H&M Group, Ingka Group (IKEA), Kingfisher plc and Walmart today launched a new climate change initiative – the Race to Zero Breakthroughs: Retail Campaign.