Recent price hikes on food commodities have increased mainstream awareness and concerns around food security and nutrition. The issue is now at the top of the global agenda due to the expected increase in food demand driven by population growth and changing consumption patterns. Furthermore, our capacity to meet this demand is compromised by dwindling natural resources, the effects of climate change, and the need to protect our ecosystems and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change – a wake-up call for collective, cross-sector adaptation efforts?
To achieve systemic change, business will need to collaborate with governments. For example, Governments of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), at the 2011 UNFCCC Durban Conference, adopted the Private Sector Initiative (PSI) of the Cancun Adaptation Framework which seeks to catalyse involvement of the private sector in the National Adaptation Plans for Action.
Partnering for Inclusive Business
Inclusive business (IB) projects, by definition, tend to sit in areas outside of companies’ traditional comfort zones. Whether providing incomes to disadvantaged people by including them in the company’s value chain, or developing new markets with pro-poor products or services, they are rarely business as usual, requiring a much stronger interaction with ‘society’ than traditional business.
Blog: NGOs and business must embrace new forms of collaboration to tackle global challenges
For those of us who believe that capitalism is a force for good, these are challenging times. Governments and business find themselves on the receiving end of blame from the public for the Western world’s current financial predicaments. Neither appear to be on the side of the everyday citizen. Capitalism is in crisis. And it […]
India – Time for business and NGOs to move from high ground to common ground
Change is afoot in India, as the debate on the role of business to support inclusive growth shifts from theory to implementation. The new landscape is one where companies are mandated by government to spend a proportion of their profits on CSR initiatives while major aid agencies are scaling down development funding for NGOs in the country.