By Making It on 8 July, 2011
Kenneth Marsh points out how better packaging can help add value and preserve food and pharmaceuticals in developing countries
Posted in Policy Brief | Tagged agribusiness, agricultural production, business, company, consultant, cultural factors, developed countries, developing countries, distribution, Economic Development, FAO, farm, food, Global, globalization, grain, hunger, innovation, issue 6, Kenneth Marsh, law, legal, legality, loss, machinery, Making It, market, material, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, multinational companies, packaging, pharmaceutical, plastic, poor storage, private sector, production rate, public sector, shipping, Sri Lanka, sustainability, sustainable production, technology, transport, transportation, UN, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNIDO, United Nations, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United States, US, value, value-added packaged food
By Making It on 4 July, 2011
Guillermo García explains how agribusiness can help Colombia’s peasant farmers ditch coca cultivation and pursue legal and more secure opportunities
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access, agribusiness, agriculture, alternative development, alternatives, Amazon, beans, black pepper, cacao, Canadá, Carrefour, Casino, coca cultivation, cocaine, coconuts, coffee, Columbia, competition, dairy products, demand, development, distribution, drugs, environment, Europe, export, Fair Trade, France, gourmet sauces, government, guerrillas, Guillermo Garcia, heart of palm, honey, illegal, income, infrastructure, Inter-American Development Bank, International, investment, issue 6, Japan, legality, local, Making It magazine, marketing, middlemen, opportunities, packaging, paramilitary, peasant farmers, private sector, Putumayo, quality, security, socio-economic intervention, Spain, subsistence, traffickers, UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNODC
By Making It on 22 June, 2011
This issue of Making It: Industry for Development looks at some aspects of the broad concept of agribusiness, often defined as the whole range of business activities that are performed from farm to fork, but also including the processing of raw materials for the production of many non-food items, such as textiles, paper and biofuel. [...]
Posted in The Magazine | Tagged ADM, Africa, agribusiness, agriculture, Archer Daniels Midland, biodiversity, biofuel, business, carbon emissions, Cargill, coca, Colombia, consumer, development, distribution, efficiency, Egypt, energy, farmers, food, globalization, growth, Guillermo Garcia, Helmy Abouleish, hunger, India, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, Johanna Sorrell, Kanayo Nwanze, magazine, Making It, organic, palm oil, paper, Patrick Kormawa, Paul Bulcke, population, poverty, sustainability, sustainable, textile, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, value changes, Vandana Shiva, water scarcity
By Making It on 23 November, 2010
The WBCSD sees a flourishing partnership for economic growth and environmental well-being
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged aid, commerce, corruption, developing countries, distribution, economic growth, environmental well-being, Filippo Veglio, globalization, government, income, jobs, Making It magazine, Marcel Engel, marketing, markets, policy, population, poverty, poverty reduction, private sector, production, prosperity, public sector, SMEs, telecommunications, trade, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, WBCSD, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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