The Business Case for Investing in Soil Health
Soil health is a pressing global issue that sits at the heart of three UN conventions (UNCBD, UNCCD and UNFCCC).
Tag: Agriculture and Food
Insider Perspective: World Toilet Day 2018
This year to mark the occasion of World Toilet Day, WBCSD participated in an event in Geneva, organized by the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) in partnership with Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and SDG Lab to highlight the role of businesses in scaling-up sanitation solutions.
Global Agribusiness Alliance announces new Chair
CEO of Phoenix to become new Chair from 2019 Singapore, 25 October 2018: Today, the Global Agribusiness Alliance (GAA) announced the nomination of Mr Gaurav Dhawan, CEO of Phoenix , the world’s second largest rice-trader as its new Chair for 2019. On taking up his new role, Mr Dhawan said “Agribusinesses have a crucial role to play in embedding […]
Spotlight on FReSH action
FReSH is a key project of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), which emerged from our partnership with EAT.
True cost of food
FReSH’s True Cost of Food Discussion Paper identifies the methodological and data gaps that need to be filled to make TCA more robust, consistent and user-friendly.
Sustainable and Healthy Diets: Reviewing existing dietary guidelines and identifying gaps for future action
FReSH is a key WBCSD project which emerged from our partnership with EAT in response to the accelerating global problem our planet and people are facing: one -third of the food produced is lost or wasted and 40% of agricultural soil is degraded, yet 800 million people are undernourished and food insecurity is generating civil unrest.
Food Systems Modeling: Mexico Case Study
The approach in the toolkit is a holistic assessment of food system activities and their outcomes, and aims at identifying the driving forces behind desirable and undesirable food system outcomes.
Food System Modeling Toolkit
The FReSH program has developed, together with TRANSMANGO and KU Leuven, a food system modeling approach that enables targeted interventions on health and sustainability of food systems.
Launch of the Food Loss and Waste Value calculator
Geneva– 19 October 2018: On 25 September 2018, at the Champions 12.3 event, FReSH announced the creation of the Food Loss and Waste Value Calculator that allows to instantly estimate the value of food loss and waste in terms of the nutrition being lost and in terms of environmental impacts. FReSH recognizes the immense opportunity of addressing food loss and waste to improve […]
Science to Solutions Dialogue 2: People, Planet, Protein
The EAT Foundation and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) through FReSH convened to put together Science to Solutions Dialogues. This second dialogue which took place In Washington DC on 24-26 April 2018, brought together business scientists, academic scientists and civil society to dialogue about how we can ensure a shift towards more […]