Aligning Business Reporting on Nutrition
According to the 2020 Global Nutrition Report , “one in every nine people in the world is hungry, and one in every three is overweight or obese.” [1] With the private sector being the provider or the producer of our food, it seems therefore logical and critical to have strong business accountability to support better practices of business for […]
Building a commercial buffalo dairy in Laos: five minutes with entrepreneur Susie Martin
Q 1. What is your inclusive business model? Laos Buffalo Dairy is a commercial buffalo dairy in the heart of Laos. Our production facility makes yogurt, cheese and ice cream for sale on local and overseas markets. Locally, we distribute to highend hotels and restaurants and have a shopfront for tourists looking to visit and […]
Thank You – and Introducing one-day Business Fights Poverty Virtual Summits
We’d like to say a big thank you to all of you who took part in Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020 . Below is a video we’ve put together… We have been humbled to receive the survey feedback: 99% said they learnt something valuable for their work; 99% said they would recommend the event […]
The Business Fights Poverty Fortnightly Round-Up
Last week, Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020 brought together people from across our network and from all over the world. We were delighted that so many of you joined us to learn from one another and to identify what the common mission to Rebuild Better will mean for us, in practice. We are grateful to the […]
Investing in inclusion delivers green and fair outcomes
Far from the COVID-19 global headlines, a movement is underway in Peru. An alliance of local green enterprises is leading the charge to Buy Local – and it is proving key for supporting small businesses through and beyond the pandemic. With close to 90% of employment in the country in small businesses, the role that […]
Day 5 Summary: Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020
Today at Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020 we discussed how to shape system-level partnerships. A fireside chat between Yvette Torres-Rahman, our Co-Founder, and Ester Baiget, CEO of Novozymes , gave insights into the value of systemic approaches to her company’s sustainability strategy, day-to-day operations, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. Ester also talked about the connections between sustainable business models and […]
Lessons Learned from COVID-19: How the Private Sector can support disaster prevention, response, and recovery
There were myriad situations where COVID-19 was an additional layer on pre-existing crises, ranging from natural hazards such as earthquakes and hurricanes to manmade crises such as the refugee crisis or conflict. How does such a “confluence of crises” affect businesses, communities, and entire economies? In the experience of the Connecting Business initiative (CBi) – […]
VIDEO: How can we develop public-private partnerships?
Neil Britto is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Neil is the Co-Founder of The Intersector Project, a non-profit organization that supports practitioners in cross-sector collaboration. Neil has advised companies, governments, and foundations on public-private partnerships. He is a Fellow at the Institute for Business […]
VIDEO: How can companies best engage in partnerships to drive transformational change?
Seth Green is the founding director of the Baumhart Center, an interdisciplinary center at Loyola University Chicago that prepares leaders to tackle society’s most pressing challenges. Seth is also an executive lecturer in the Management Department of Loyola’s Quinlan School of Business, where he teaches courses on nonprofit leadership, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility. […]
Upcoming Online Event: Building System-Level Partnerships to Strengthen Food Systems
As part of Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020 , Business Fights Poverty and Nestlé are convening a webinar and online peer discussion on Building System-Level Partnerships to Strengthen Food Systems . The webinar will take place on Friday, 25 September 2020 at 10AM EDT / 3PM BST, followed by 30 minutes Peer Discussion ending […]
Four lessons for businesses wanting to build more equitable supply chains through sustainable sourcing
Approximately 78 percent of the world’s poor, or 800 million people , live in rural areas and rely on agriculture for a living. Most of those smallholder farmers are operating at extremely low levels of productivity and are excluded from formal markets. Meanwhile, there is a growing demand for locally-sourced food, particularly in growing urban hubs […]
VIDEO: How Can Business Enhance Social Justice in Global Supply Chains
Juliane Reinecke is Professor of International Management and Sustainability at King’s Business School, King’s College London. She is also a Research Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School and Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, both at the University of Cambridge. WHAT THIS SESSION COVERS The aim of this session is to help business […]
Scaling the Impact of Digital Financial Services: The Opportunity and Imperative during COVID-19
“Being paid into an account is much safer. During Corona, if I were paid in cash, I would have had to go to the factory in person and disinfect the money as my colleagues did when they received their salaries in the envelope.” Ibrahim, Garment Worker, Egypt For Ibrahim, as for many low-income workers in […]
Business calls on governments to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 and accelerate SDG progress for refugees
On 16 September, the Business Refugee Action Network (BRAN) released its Business Takes a Stand for Refugees Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Statement, endorsed by 19 businesses and organisations, including Virgin Group, Ben & Jerry’s and Citi and supported by Deputy Chair of The Elders and former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ahead of the UN General […]
VIDEO: How can companies ensure they have a positive relationship with the world around them?
Cristianne Close is Global Practice Leader, Markets, at WWF, where she works with business to benefit nature and people. Previously, she was Founder and Director at Fundacion Choco Empreende, and held manager roles at Arcos Dorados and Syngenta. WHAT THIS SESSION COVERS The aim of this session is to help business professionals understand what is […]
If it is broke, do fix it Rebuilding better agriculture and food systems – and what business can do to help
In various places and to varying degrees, September has been a month of return – to socialising, to school, to the office and maybe, if we just squint hard enough, to some version of normal. Let’s hope we don’t also return to our old thinking around livelihoods, agriculture and business’ role in both. From Europe […]
Day 4 Summary: Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020
Today at Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020 we discussed how to build resilient livelihoods. A fireside chat between Jane Nelson, Director of the Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, and John Blood, Chief of Legal and Corporate Affairs of AB InBev gave insights into the importance of integrating businesses and local communities if we truly want to rebuild […]
VIDEO: How can companies integrate human rights into their business purposes and strategies
Hannah Temple is Director of Consulting at twentyfifity ltd., the world’s first human rights and business specialist management consultancy. Since 2004, twentyfifty has helped some of the world’s largest businesses to powerfully and practically respect human rights across their operations and value chains. twentyfifty supports its clients to practically implement what is known as human […]
VIDEO: How can I cultivate Intrapreneurship in my buisness?
Maggie De Pree is an entrepreneur, community builder, activist innovator and mother. She loves prototyping new ways of working and organizing. With an amazing team of visionaries, she is building a global community of corporate and institutional change agents called The League of Intrapreneurs, which she co-founded. WHAT THIS SESSION COVERS The aim of […]
Day 3 Summary: Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020
Today at Business Fights Poverty NYC Online 2020 we discussed how to help people survive and thrive. A fireside chat between Katie Hyson, our Director of Thought Leadership, and Roger Martin, Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto , gave insights into the problems of growing economic inequality, why so many people are being […]