The 5 C's of going green: How to achieve responsible procurement
20-10-2009, 10:18 | by: Professor Corey A. Billington, Aileen Ionescu-Somers and Michèle Barnett Berg
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and responsible procurement in particular are on boardroom agendas, but they remain a challenging task for organizations to execute successfully. Responsible procurement covers a broad range of issues, including the environment, health and safety, and labor practices. The benefits are often difficult to measure and the investments large and unclear. But companies ...
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The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use
16-10-2009, 16:13 | by: jonathan foley
As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem - the global crisis in land use. With agricultural practices already causing massive ecological impact, the world must now find new ways to feed its burgeoning population and launch a "Greener" Revolution.It's taken a long time, but the issue of global climate ...
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International Investment in Developing Countries' Agriculture
12-10-2009, 18:20 | by: Emeline Fellus
The recent surge of interest in foreign investment in agricultural land has attracted substantial international concern, including at the recent l'Aquila G8 summit where Japan called for "responsible investment" and proposed international cooperation to secure it. Certainly, complex and controversial economic, political, institutional, legal and ethical issues are raised in ... |
The food crisis will be back
07-07-2009, 14:30 | by: Marcos Fava Neves (Daily China)
The food crisis, a problem that we faced in 2007 and 2008, will be back sooner than expected. This is due to several factors, arising out of the economic and financial crisis, that are generating pressure on our capacity to supply food.First, there has been increase in areas dedicated to biofuels. Several countries are starting production of biofuels, which is taking up land used for food ... |
The Organic Menu
05-05-2009, 18:35 | by: Prof. dr Martijn B. Katan | Arable and Vegetable Crops
I sometimes go to organic farms. Once there, I often rediscover things I didn't even know I had lost. Wild flowers grow there, the cows have names, and the food the farmers eat has been grown on the premises. It is uplifting just to be there. But do we really know whether ‘organic' is better for our health and the environment? The search for an answer to this question confronts us with ...
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