Tag: Soft Commodities Forum (SCF)

CEO Guide to Food System Transformation

WBCSD released the CEO Guide to Food System Transformation which outlines seven pathways and clear actions for CEOs to transform our food system in the next decade.

Businesses call for deeper partnership to build a more forest positive future

Images of the dry season fires in the Brazilian Amazon have generated massive media coverage and raised social consciousness about the existential challenges we face if rainforests continue to perish. They are vital to life on earth cleaning the air, circulating freshwater, storing carbon and providing livelihoods for more than a billion people. The latest […]

Leading global organizations join forces to elevate the business call to protect and restore nature

New global coalition calls for action to reverse nature loss and restore natural systems on which economies, wellbeing and prosperity depend. Dalian, China, 2 July 2019:  Today, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions in China, and the Trondheim Biodiversity Conferences in Norway, a diverse group of influential  international organizations has announced […]

Soft Commodities Forum members publish first common reports on soy supply chains

Geneva, 6 June 2019: The six members of WBCSD’s Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) – Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill, COFCO International, Glencore Agriculture and Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) – have issued public reporting on soy sourced from Brazil’s Cerrado biome. The reports follow the SCF members’ commitment to a common reporting framework last February, supporting […]

Soft Commodities Forum members commit to common framework supporting transparent and traceable soy supply chains in Brazil

Geneva, 15 February 2019: The Soft Commodities Forum (SCF) members, a global platform for leading soft commodities companies convened by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), have committed to a common framework for reporting and monitoring progress on transparent and traceable supply chains for soy in Brazil’s Cerrado region.   The Cerrado region of Brazil […]

COFCO International joins WBCSD

COFCO International has joined nearly 200 forward-thinking companies as the newest member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Geneva, 12 February 2019: Headquartered in Geneva, COFCO International handles over 100 million tons of agricultural commodities each year. With 12,000 people in 35 countries, COFCO International is the overseas agriculture business platform for COFCO […]

WBCSD’s Diane Holdorf and our approach to food system transformation

Current food systems are outstripping the resources of the planet while current diets are resulting in global health crises of both over- and under-nutrition. All this will be amplified by a continuing growth in population and changes in dietary habits.  How will we ensure our ability to create a food system that supports a population […]

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