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Issues for Responsible Investors: Forestry in Asia
Authors: Cheng, Billy; Le Clue, Sophie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
This report attempts to outline the environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that responsible investors should consider when looking at the forestry sector and, by association, the pulp and paper industry in East, South and Southeast Asia.
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Authors: Bell, David E.; Neves, Marcos Fava; Castro, Thome e; Kindred, Natalie
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast.
Wal-Mart Puerto Rico: Promoting Development Through a Public-Private Partnership
Authors: Sagebien, Julia; Comas, Myrna
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2010
"Sowing the Development of the Country" (SDC) was a public-private partnership between Wal-Mart Puerto Rico (Wal-Mart PR), the island's Department of Agriculture as well as its Economic Development Bank (EDB), two NGOs "Caborrojeños Pro Salud y Ambiente" (Caborrojeños Pro Health and Environment) and ConectaRSE (a corporate social responsibility (CSR) promotion non-governmental organization(NGO)), and a group of local farmers. The objective of the project was to promote sustainable development on the island by encouraging farmers to become entrepreneurs by developing small agro-businesses. Wal-Mart acted as the primary buyer. The project faced many challenges, such as farmers' difficulties in meeting quality standards and delivery schedules, the lack of an existing vehicle through which to access funding from the EDB, and, most importantly, changes in the political party in power. Project partners had to develop a position from which to negotiate a new alliance with the incoming government administration.
Selling Agriculture 2.0 to Silicon Valley
Author: Woody, Todd
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2010
A catch-all phrase for environmentally beneficial farming, sustainable agriculture has long been the province of organic enthusiasts. But venture capitalists say a growing awareness of conventional agriculture’s contribution to climate change and concerns over its consumption of water and energy are creating markets for technological innovation to minimize those effects.
Monsanto
Authors: Bell, David E.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Shelman, Mary
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Monsanto has led the effort to bring biotechnology to bear on food production. Through some management missteps and consumer resistance the company had difficulties in its early years. But since Hugh Grant became CEO the picture has brightened with widespread adoption of the company's products. This case focuses on the company's product pipeline and the galvanizing effect of the CEO's promise to substantially improve global food production by 2030.
Innovation and Knowledge Adoption for Local Firms in the Value Chain: The Story of 'White Gold' from Uzbekistan
Authors: Bekchanov, Maksud; Sepulveda, Alejandra; Hornidge, Anna-Katharina; Purwaningrum, Farah
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Center for Development Research (ZEF) - Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Publication Year: 2010
The present paper looks at the current system of cotton production as state-order crop in Uzbekistan and discusses possibilities of integrating environment and innovation in the value chain subsystem as an effort to move away from exporting cotton as raw material towards developing a cotton processing industry.
Woolf Farming and Processing
Authors: Bell, David E.; Winig, Laura; Shelman, Mary
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water and unavailability of surface water due to federally imposed pumping restrictions.
Fashion Futures 2025: Global Scenarios for a Sustainable Fashion Industry
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Forum for the Future, Levi Strauss & Co.
Publication Year: 2010
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If we understand what the future may hold we can prepare for it, spot promising new ventures and even help shape the direction it takes...
Farmstar Goes Global: Corporate Entrepreneurship Bringing Sustainable Value Innovation to Agribusinesses
Authors: Warr, Benjamin; Van Wassenhove, Luk; Carrick-Cagna, Anne-Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD
Publication Year: 2010
Farmstar provides farmers with recommendations throughout the growing season and enabled subscribers to manage their crops with unprecedented precision. The technology’s potential was enormous...
Diamond Foods
Authors: Bell, David E.; Shelman, Mary
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product development process, advertising and promotion strategy, and specifically its marketing department have been built "from the ground up" to address fundamental changes in retail structure and consumer behavior. Can the Diamond model be successfully applied to other food categories?
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