New Partnership Aims to Drastically Cut Food Loss and Waste in Indonesia
Copenhagen, 30 August 2018: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that one-third of all food produced annually for human consumption in the (…)
Tag: Scaling Positive Agriculture
Prestigious World Food Prize awarded to Geneva-based food system and nutrition champions David Nabarro and Lawrence Haddad
Geneva, Switzerland, 25 June 2018: The World Food Prize Committee today announced the award of the 2018 World Food Prize to Dr. David Nabarro, Strategic Director (…)
Business is the essential implementation partner for the Paris Agreement
As the world’s most powerful economic engine – with a strong presence across borders and within nation states – the power, cooperation and influence of (…)
Private sector food producers line up behind first ever global initiative to cut food losses
New York, 20 September: A global initiative committing major international food producers to tough new targets to reduce food loss was announced today during the United (…)
Becoming water-smart: Newly released report delves into scalable water and agriculture solutions in India
Mumbai, 9 August 2017: The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) newest report, Co-optimizing solutions in water and agriculture: Lessons from India on water security, (…)
WBCSD Members study Jain Irrigation’s innovative and practical solutions for Water-Smart Agriculture
Jalgaon, 3 May 2017: Last month, Jain Irrigation hosted a group of WBCSD member companies for a two-day visit of company’s facilities in Jalgaon, in Maharashtra, (…)
Sustainable Chocolate: Barry Callebaut joins WBCSD
Barry Callebaut has today joined almost 200 forward-thinking companies as the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Geneva, 2 May (…)
New Research Finds Companies Saved $14 for Every $1 Invested in Reducing Food Waste
Report from Champions 12.3 shows that companies, consumers and governments can save billions of dollars and millions of tons of food by acting to cut (…)
First-Ever Global Standard to Measure Food Loss and Waste Introduced by International Partnership
-A partnership of leading international organizations is launching the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) 2016 Summit in (…)
BCSD Singapore advances the fight against food loss and waste
Singapore Business Council for Sustainable Development invited business and government representatives to contribute to the finalization of the Food Loss and Waste Protocol by providing (…)