Preventing a COVID-19 food crisis – the role and opportunity for multinationals
As COVID-19 continues to impact millions of lives and jobs around the world, it is also making our global food system increasingly vulnerable.
Tag: Agriculture and Food
WASH Pledge: Guiding principles
This publication includes a set of guiding principles that will support companies in their efforts to implement WASH at the workplace – an essential first step for businesses supporting global objectives related to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
WASH Pledge self-assessment tool for business
The WASH Pledge self-assessment tool is an excel-based tool that can be used by companies to evaluate their implementation of access to safe WASH at the workplace in comparison to leading practices.
A clear-eyed view of the deeply disrupted decade ahead
What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for the decade ahead? What vulnerabilities has it exposed? What trends is it accelerating? And what must business address as it builds back better from this crisis?
WWF, WBCSD release new report on water tools and approaches for businesses to assess risks and shared water challenges
New Delhi, 14 May: Today, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched the report Right Tool for the Job: Tools and Approaches for Companies and Investors to Assess Water Risks and Shared Water Challenges. The report provides an overview of three leading corporate water tools and provides guidance for […]
An eye-opening journey in the heart of the Brazilian Cerrado
The following text and images are from a personal blog post from WBCSD’s Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) Manager Nicoletta Pavese where she shares her journey in connecting with soy producers in the Western Bahia State
Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Setting a Global Action Agenda
This August 2019 report identifies a three-pronged approach to halve food loss and waste by 2030.
Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard
Also known simply as the FLW Standard, this comprehensive guidance document and toolkit provides a common language and clear requirements for quantifying and reporting food loss and waste for all supply chain actors including restaurants, farms, retailers, manufacturers, city or federal governments. Produced in partnership by the Consumer Goods Forum, Fusions, Save Food Initiative, UNEP, […]
Food Loss and Waste Value Calculator
The FLW Value Calculator creates a snapshot of the impacts related to the loss and waste of different types of food. With this knowledge you can demonstrate how your efforts to prevent food loss and waste provide nutritional and environmental value.
Tackling food loss and waste – Buhler Tackling food loss through mycotoxin reduction in grains
One third of food produced is never consumed: this represents 8% of global GHG and a quarter of the water used in agriculture, as well as crop-land the size of China.