Formal Value Chains and the Poor
Under What Conditions Are Value Chains Effective Tools for Pro Poor Development? Understanding the benefits, costs, and risks when connecting small scale producers to formal markets is critical to supporting…
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Momentum Builds for Landscape Level Sustainable Watershed Initiatives
On April 1, the California Department of Water Resources hydrologists are expected to announce the smallest snowpack ever in state history. This will mark the fourth year of an unprecedented drought that…
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Leveraging Science, Certification, and Impact Investment to Scale Climate Smart Agricultural Practices
Are your raw materials ‘climate smart’? A new Food Lab and CCAFS partnership tackles the challenge of scaling climate smart value chains. Since 2010, the Sustainable Food Lab has partnered…
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Scope 4 in Action: A Hopeful Example from the Amazon
There are many sustainability challenges that by their nature cannot be solved by one actor alone. Water shortage, water pollution, climate mitigation and adaptation, and deforestation are examples of supply…
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Measure to Manage Food Loss in Supply Chains
The shocking statistic that 33 percent of food is lost or wasted—one out of every three calories—begs the question, what can food and beverage companies do about food loss and…
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US Food Companies Collaborate to Increase Supply of Organic Grain
Many of the countries’ largest organic food companies are working together to overcome a shared challenge: how to increase the supply of organic grain. This group has recently made some…
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Coffee and Cocoa Companies Plan for Climate Change Impacts
As multinational companies grow more sophisticated in understanding their supply chains, the research community is also getting better at modeling and predicting future weather patterns, diseases, water availability and other…
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