civil society

A case of ‘homeland security’

By Making It on 15 February, 2012

Alejandro Litovsky and Paulina Villalpando look at how the risks of investing in farmland create opportunities for sustainability

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agribusiness beyond compliance, agricultural land, Alejandro Litovsky, Apple, biofuels, biological diversity, China, civil society, climate change a threat, crops to feed livestock, development, drought, Earth Security Initiative, ecological limits, ecosystems, environmental footprint, Ethiopia, food commodity prices, government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa, human security, hydropower plants, Industrial Development Organization, industrial productivity, investing in farmland, issue 9, labour standards, land security, local communities, Making It magazine, opportunities for sustainability, our low-carbon future, Paulina Villalpando, productivity, risk management, Rodale Institute, Saudi Arabia, scientific research, sustainability, sustainable industrial development, transparency, transparency of investment deals, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, water consumption

‘Creating Shared Value’ for society and shareholders

By Making It on 28 July, 2011

Nestlé’s Paul Bulcke recognizes success depends on creating value for everyone – from farmers to consumers – and discusses how to achieve it

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advice, agribusiness, agriculture, ambition, Brazil, business, child labour, civil society, community involvement, consumers, creating shared value, CSV, deforestation footprint, doing business, economic growth, economic reality, employment, environment, food security, future, global export, globalization, Harvard, HIV, hope, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, interconnectivity, interdependence, investment, issue 6, local government, Making It magazine, Michael Porter, micronutrients, milk, mutual value, Nestlé, nutrition, Paul Bulcke, poverty, product strategy, roads, rural development, social benefits, societal advancement, South Africa, supply chain, sustainability, sustainable business practices, UN, UN Global Compact, UNIDO, United Nations, unwelcome, vaccines, values, water, water management, Water Mandate, Water Resources Group, water treatment systems, working together, World Economic Forum

The poverty footprint

By Making It on 28 March, 2011

Mary Arnesen, Business and Markets Project Manager at Oxfam GB, introduces a new way to help companies understand how their business affects the people where they operate

Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advocacy, agenda, alleviation, assess, awareness, business, business relations, civil society, climate change, community, company, consumers, countries, credit, crime, culture, developing countries, disaster risk reduction, distribution, éducation, empowerment, environment, equality, footprint, framework, gender, Gerry Boyle, health care, idea, identity, India, Indonesia, Industrial Development Organization, institution, issue 5, jobs, Kyle Cahill, livelihood, macro-economic, Making It, manufacturing, market, Mary Arnesen, media, methodologies, metrics, morals, multi-dimensional, natural disasters, outsourcing, Oxfam America, Oxfam GB, policies, poor people, poverty, Poverty Footprint, power, production, qualitative, quantitative, reduction, report, research, rights, rules, security, social impact, stability, stakeholder, strategy, trade, transparency, UNIDO, Unilever, United Nations, value chain, values, violence

Making private standards work for you

By Making It on 27 March, 2011

For business values, norms, ethics, private standards are one way of promoting social development and environmental sustainability

Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged business, civil society, competitive advantage, consumption, developing countries, ecologic, efficiency, environment, export, Global, globalization, governance, guideline, human rights, Industrial Development Organization, International, issue 5, liberalization, market, Müge Dolun Bora, national, policy, practices, private standards, production, regional, report, responsibility, safety, social, study, sustainability, technical regulation, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, workers' rights

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A case of ‘homeland security’

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