Welcome and Scope 4
We choose this year’s theme intentionally – “leading into the future”. Both as an invitation for each of us to reflect on what is ahead for us as a cross…
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Landscape initiatives in which draw-down of water aquifers is primary driver
John Rogers from AB InBev and Charlotte Cawthorne from Innocent shared collective action initiatives—John in Guanajuato Mexico, and Charlotte in southern Spain. John’s take-aways were: Get started. Share with others.…
Organizing Regional Collaboration to manage natural resources and improve social well-being
The IDH Sustainable Landscapes Initiative (ISLA) is focused on six landscape level efforts to shift the agricultural system towards sustainable resource management and resiliency. Neinke Stam of IDH introduced three…
Strategies to operationalize zero deforestation commitments
In the past few years, more than 300 companies – as well as industry groups, governments, and others – have committed to eliminating deforestation linked to the production of key…
Corporate Commitments and Collective Action
Nienke Stam from IDH, Simon Lord from Sime Darby, Richard Fox from Finlays, Juliana Lopez from Amaggi and Charlotte Cawthorne from Innocentdiscussed corporate commitments to zero-deforestation or water stewardship and what…
Systems Leadership for Collective Impact
Peter Senge, MIT Sloan School of Management and author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, introduced the concept of system leadership and invited each…
Building a coalition for Living Wages
Sebastian Michaelis from Tata/Tetley, Jordy van Honk from Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH and Sloane Hamilton from Oxfam GB discussed how the tea sector developed a shared commitment to living wages…
Sector Transformation
Much of the work to improve the performance of commodity sectors with large numbers of smallholders like coffee, tea and cocoa has been anchored in specific supply chains with voluntary standards. Meanwhile,…
Climate Smart Agriculture
“We can’t talk about climate smart agriculture without talking about resilient communities. If communities can’t deal with shocks, we can’t build up resilient farms.” – Carol Gribnau, HIVOS This session…
Supplier Engagement
Michele Pisetta from Ferraro, Ann Burkhart from Starbucks, and Susan Forsell from McDonalds discussed opportunities for finding the shared business case for implementing sustainability measures, when partnerships are useful and…
Exploring Post Harvest Loss from a Buyers Perspective
C.D. Glen from Rockefeller Foundation and Katarina Kehlmann from Technoserve discussed the opportunities that exist for lead firms to engage in post harvest loss reduction to increase supply, decrease repetitional…
Closing Plenary Panel
Sean de Cleene from Yara, Arie van den Brand a former member of the Dutch Parliament, Lucian Peppelenbos from IDH and Britt Lundgren from Stonyfield Farms, discussed their views on…