Roadmaps to nature-positive: what’s next for agri-food companies?
This insights piece is part of a series presenting diverse perspectives on nature-positive business approaches.
Tag: One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B)
Cultivating farmer prosperity
This piece of work brings forward the farmer perspective on transitioning to regenerative agriculture. We explore the economics through the lens of an “average” Kansas wheat farmer but present a methodology that can be translated and applied to other geographies and commodities.
Farmers stand to see increase crop yields and profits with 15-25% return on investment by transitioning to regenerative farming practices
Short-term financial investment for farmers can reach nearly USD $40 per acre, but long-term profits can grow 120%; public and private sector assistance needed to de-risk transition to regenerative practices
A historic agreement for biodiversity – now it’s time for implementation
n December 2022, OP2B coalition and its members joined the 15th COP in Montreal, Canada as observers of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
Developing a Nature-Positive Food & Agriculture Roadmap: Location, Rotation & other early Insights
This insights piece is part of a series presenting diverse perspectives about business actions on nature-positive.
OP2B’s Framework for Restoration Actions
The Restoration Actions framework will help answer the need for harmonization in the ecosystem restoration field by aligning and amplifying action for maximized impact at scale.
FoodDrinkEurope and OP2B advocate for regenerative agriculture as a pillar for the upcoming EU Soil Health Law proposal and call for incentives
FoodDrinkEurope and One Planet Business for Biodiversity welcome the consultation initiative for the upcoming EU Soil Health Law and stated the potential of regenerative agriculture practices in helping to meet the objectives of the EU Soil Strategy for 2030, by protecting and restoring soils.
Road to COP 15: aligning business action with the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework and 2030 Action Targets
Growing awareness and collaboration for a nature-positive world has contributed to building business confidence to halt and reverse nature loss, delivering tools and guidance to help on implementation and action within operations and across value chains.
European business urges no further delay in proposal for legally binding nature restoration targets
Dear President Von der Leyen, Business warmly welcomes the Commission’s ambitions to propose legally binding targets for nature restoration and urges the publication of these in June 2022 with no further delay. Nature restoration targets are key to achieving the broader objectives set out in the EU Green Deal and its Strategy to reverse biodiversity […]
Ongoing crises call for a change of paradigm in agriculture
Climate and geopolitical shocks: can we afford to maintain the same agricultural system and “feed the world” narrative that has predominated over the past 50 years? Or is it time to change our paradigm? Just when we thought the COVID pandemic would start releasing its pressure on the global food and agriculture systems, a litany […]