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Making international supply chains work better for smallholder farmers



 

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Added by Aurelie Walker on May 28, 2012 at 9:00 — No Comments

How does climate policy influence business behaviour?

By Vivienne Benson (this post was originally published on globalisationanddevelopment.com)

With just over a month until world leaders will join thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, and NGOs in Rio for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, the relationship between climate policy and the private sector is a…

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Added by Vivienne Benson on May 17, 2012 at 16:30 — No Comments

Two reasons why the private sector is slow to cut carbon

By Hubert Schmitz

 

This blog post was originally posted on the Globalisation and Development Blog on 9 March 2012.

 

Last week we started a new IDS seminar series on Business and Climate Policy. The reason for bringing business into the climate change debate is clear. For the green transformation to happen it…

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Added by Vivienne Benson on March 14, 2012 at 13:30 — No Comments

What are the opportunities and challenges that arise from climate policy and climate change?

Photo: Curt Carnemark / World Bank. Marsh, Botswana.

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Added by Vivienne Benson on March 5, 2012 at 12:00 — No Comments

‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet'?

 

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Added by Barbara Crowther on March 5, 2012 at 7:00 — 7 Comments

Ethiopia’s Challenge: Balancing Agriculture with Environmental Protection

Ethiopia’s Challenge: Balancing Agriculture with Environmental Protection

Added by Andualem Sisay on July 18, 2011 at 12:53 — No Comments

how to start a movement...

The beginning of a new year offers an opportunity for a fresh start full of good intentions.2010 marked the beginning of a new decade with great hopes for sustainable development including biodiversity – BUT it  was not a good year for global sustainable development. It was marked  and marred by an entirely preventable, highly publicised, major environmental disaster and, in the main, a “business as usual” approach.

It was also marked by increased calls for true sustainability versus…

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Added by Ulrike Schuermann on January 17, 2011 at 1:24 — No Comments

Train the unemployed to build homes for the homeless

Train the unemployed to build homes for the homeless

Talk about an exciting time to be involved with the BoP. Since the world's wealthiest philanthropist Bill Gates gave his speech about "creative capitalism" in Davos.

Now Mr. Gates is arguing that capitalism, appropriately pursued, is in fact the best hope to bring services and improve productivity and create opportunity for the…

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Added by moladi Formwork on December 30, 2010 at 7:51 — No Comments

Ring in 2011 with a Resolution to Protect Health, the Earth, and Human Rights

Fashioning Change wants to help you ring in 2011 with a meaningful New Years Resolution.  We recently released our Green 2011 application to help people expand ethical and eco living habits and show off greenness in

 2011. …

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Added by Adriana Herrera on December 27, 2010 at 22:30 — No Comments

Please Vote for Julia once more to publicise the cause to end FGM/C

Julia Lalla-Maharajh is a finalist for an Influencer Award, one of the Social Change Awards online this year. For her advocacy work to break the taboos around Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation, Julia has been chosen out of 700 nominations. Please vote for her online to win as many times as you like. Here is her message:-



Dear All



Voting for me may sound familiar to some of you - this one is a bit less high profile than Davos but nevertheless, would be a great one for the… Continue

Added by Lyndal Anne Bale on October 15, 2010 at 20:49 — No Comments

(Field visit briefs) Impact of Climate change on rural livelihoods in Cameroon Case of Oil Palm in Widikum area NW Region

(Field visit briefs)



Impact of Climate change on rural livelihoods in Cameroon:

Case of Widikum Palm oil Value chain.

NW Region Cameroon



“What is this climate change, is it another form of HIV AIDs or malaria that is affecting our Palm bushes, is there any cure or it will just kill the entire bush like AIDs kill people?”



Comments from a Participant during a workshop on Good forest governance in Widikum Cameroon (translated from Pidgin… Continue

Added by TANGEM ELVIS PAUL NFOR on June 21, 2010 at 15:13 — No Comments

Significant shifts of the new world we are building

Much thanks to my colleague Roshanna Evans who posted the following on our differencemakers community site.

The list comes from PEERS.com another tribe Roshanna belongs to.



It is a list I plan to ponder a lot and take action accordingly.



Old: Man is born into sin, essentially corrupt at the core.

New: All people in their core essence are beautiful and worthy of… Continue

Added by Ian Berry on April 10, 2010 at 0:46 — No Comments

The new world waiting to be born (my title) a profound presentation by Jeremy Rifkin

This talk by eminent scientist Jeremy Rifkin is a much watch for all who care about our future and how to make it how it should be.





Be remarkable

Ian

Founder Differencemakers Community

Sign-up here for a least one free resource per month and to get your complimentary copy of my ebook Differencemakers - how doing… Continue

Added by Ian Berry on April 1, 2010 at 5:13 — No Comments

Please put 10.10.10 in your diary - The World Day of Interconnectedness

One of the great events I was involved in last year was the inaugural World Day of Interconnectedness on 090909.



This year the day will be celebrated on 101010.



I am letting you know well in advance that members of differencemakers community and Leaders Cafe 2020 are already busy working on an ebook on leadership, interconnectedness, and collaboration that will be published to coincide with the event (more than 20 authors involved) and we will again be presenting a… Continue

Added by Ian Berry on March 26, 2010 at 22:59 — No Comments

Linchpins, Trusted Agents, Family, Friends, Colleagues, Who do you rely on? Who is relying on you?

I feel despair when so called world leaders fail to collaborate and therefore what needs to happen with climate change, economics, you name it, doesn’t happen.



On the other hand I feel excitement, inspiration, and exhilaration when I see or hear of so called ordinary people making a difference. I am convinced more than ever that positive and productive change is personal first, local second, the world third.



Aside from law and order, maintaining some infrastructures and… Continue

Added by Ian Berry on March 10, 2010 at 2:42 — No Comments

Homelessness: A Paradigm Shift

If you imagine most people’s stereotype of a homeless person it’s probably an image of a man with a dog, a can of beer in hand slumped back against the wall with a cap on the floor and his hand out begging for change.





Anyone with that image in mind would probably find it difficult to understand the mission of Network 2012 to provide financial awards to “the homeless” and other financially disadvantaged groups to start their own business or social enterprise. I’m sure there are… Continue

Added by Martin on December 3, 2009 at 9:42 — No Comments

Beating Poverty through Viral Change

As a working title it was something very new to me 'Viral Change' although not an original concept.



The person that introduced this working style to me had called change by stealth but this had a manipulating aura therefore the change in name. The notion that we all have a responsibility but we don't see it in terms of mass action. The aim is to get a chain of action started by a simple act. The consequential reactions create benefit to a wider group.



I saw it work with a… Continue

Added by Mark Trotter on December 2, 2009 at 20:35 — No Comments

Climate and Food Security Go Hand in Hand by Jay Naidoo chair GAIN board, Khaleej Times

As world leaders in Copenhagen struggle for an ambitious deal, let's not forget that it is the future of our children that is at stake. Hurricanes, floods, heat waves and droughts wreak havoc when they strike, but in the desolation they leave behind it is relatively easy to reconstruct a road or a house. A human life is lost forever.… Continue

Added by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition on December 1, 2009 at 15:31 — No Comments

The private sector and climate change in developing countries

By Karen Ellis, Carolin Schramm and Alberto Lemma



Responding to climate change, and achieving low carbon… Continue

Added by Business Fights Poverty on November 30, 2009 at 22:30 — No Comments

Blog Action Day 09- Climate change and poverty

Today is 15 October 2009 and Blog Action Day 09 is here! Blog Action day see bloggers around the world write blogs on an issue that affects humanity and this year the them is CLIMATE CHANGE



I thought I would add a twist to it by looking at climate change and poverty as I strongly believe that these two go hand in hand in the parts of the world where my work is based.



On the whole the people I work with in East Africa are in rural… Continue

Added by Ida Horner on October 15, 2009 at 10:16 — 2 Comments

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