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Wilmar International Limited - Managing Multiple Stakeholders in a Global Palm Oil Agribusiness Group
Authors: Wee, Beng Geok; Chen, Geraldine; Buche, Ivy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Asian Business Case Centre
Publication Year: 2012
Established in 1991, Wilmar grew rapidly to become one of the largest palm oil companies in Southeast Asia. As the global demand for palm oil grew, environmental groups were concerned about the impact of palm oil industry on the social and natural environment, such as loss of forest ecosystems, environmental damage, soil degradation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. They were pressuring palm oil producers, including Wilmar, to take action to address these issues. The challenge was to manage growth initiatives and the environmentalists' demands for more sustainable operations...
The Black Rhino
Authors: Freeman, R. Edward; Harris, Jared; Mead, Jenny; Cook, Sierra; Bailey, Trisha
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
John Hume, a veteran game farmer and founder of the Mauricedale Game Ranch in South Africa, was deeply troubled by the record upsurge in black rhino poaching incidents and black-market horn thefts in 2010 and 2011. As both a businessman and a rhino advocate, John Hume was contemplating an innovative idea that might help stop the decline of the black rhino: the creation of a market for legalized black rhino hunting...
The Prince's Speech: On the Future of Food
Author: The Prince of Wales, HRH
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Rodale Books
Publication Year: 2012
The Prince's Speech is a stirring, thought-provoking, and ultimately hopeful call to action from HRH Prince Charles, one of the world's leading proponents of sustainable farming practices...
The Future of Fish in Asia
Authors: Blinch, Jenny; McCarron, Benjamin; Yewdall, Katie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2011
Many investors now have policies relating to climate change, ethics and the environment. Few, however, have extended their policy to the sustainability of seafood sourcing, despite the fact that marine products are a key raw material for industries as diverse as agriculture, retail, pharmaceuticals, and pet food.
One Acre Fund: Outgrowing the Board
Authors: Sherman, Eliot; Donnelly, Anne Cohn
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2011
A young international nonprofit social enterprise governed by friends of the founder grows rapidly and faces increasing demands...
Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Farming in Indonesia
Authors: Alon, Ilan; Misati, Eve
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
Oded Carmi was a social entrepreneur striving for a “green Bali.” He started Sari Organik as a model farm intended to grow organically with market demands and to benefit the local community while serving as an educational center for small scale farmers in the region. Thirteen years later, the idea was not as well embraced as he had hoped.
The Great Green Wall: African Farmers Beat Back Drought and Climate Change with Trees
Author: Hertsgaard, Mark
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Scientific American
Publication Year: 2011
Despite his illiteracy, Yacouba Sawadogo is a pioneer of the tree-based approach to farming that has transformed the western Sahel over the last twenty years.
Pepsi-BASIX Partnership
Authors: Bajaj, Gita; Bhullar, Neelu
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
BASIX was a microfinance company with livelihood promotion as its key agenda. In 2005, PepsiCo entered an agreement with BASIX for promoting contract farming of potatoes in Jharkhand. The collaboration was successful in the first year and the project witnessed a very high growth in the second year. The second year results, however, were not as encouraging as the first year. The case is poised at this juncture...
Bayer CropScience in India (A, B)
Authors: Dhanaraj, Charles; Branzei, Oana; Subramanian, Satyajeet
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The case explores value-driven strategy formulation and implementation by bringing to the fore issues of ethics, responsible leadership, social intitiatives in emerging markets and the global-local tensions in corporate social responsibility. It examines how Bayer CropScience addressed the issue of child labour in its cotton seed supply chain in rural India between 2002 and 2008.
Danimal in South Africa: Management Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Authors: Hawarden, Verity; Barnard, Helena
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The case focuses on management innovation in the South African dairy industry, describing how an innovative new yoghurt product, Danimal, was created specifically for the market at the base of the pyramid. It explains how management of the product line embodied the various innovation opportunities and challenges presented.
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