Tag Archives: Commodities

Taking Care of Business: Landscape Approaches to Reduce Risk

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

From beer brewing in Bogota to mochas in Mexico, for the past few weeks the Landscapes Blog has covered the role of landscape approaches in business operations and supply chains, in light of the Landscapes Initiative’s release of Reducing Risk: … Continue reading →

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C.A.F.E Ole: Starbucks and Sustainable Sourcing at the Landscape Level

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Matt Zonis

The following is the last case study featured in the Landscapes Initiative’s Reducing Risk: Landscapes Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing report. These case studies are meant to demonstrate how a landscape approach can benefit businesses and supply chains by managing environmental and … Continue reading →

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Growing Better Sugarcane: A Model in Brazil

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Rachel Friedman

The air is hot; the fields dry and dusty from last year’s sugarcane stalks now tilled back into the earth. As far as the eye can see the landscape is cultivated with soya beans, sugarcane, corn and pasture. This is … Continue reading →

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Businesses and the Landscape Approach: Achieving Real Sustainability

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Blog Editor

By Lee Gross, Project Manager, EcoAgriculture Partners By now most everyone is familiar with eco-certifications of some kind: USDA Organic, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM are just a few we have been living with for at least … Continue reading →

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Money Does Grow on Trees: Why Sustainability is Good for Business

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Matt Zonis

In an increasingly globalized environment, the impact that worldwide trends have on businesses has never been greater. Over the past decade, rising prices for land and energy  have cut into businesses’ bottom-line, making current business procedures unsustainable for the long term. … Continue reading →

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Landscape of the Week: Climate Change and Kericho-Mau

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Rachel Friedman

Striving for Climate-Smart in the Heart of Kenya’s Tea Landscape In the cool, fertile highlands of the Rift Valley Province in western Kenya, the landscape is dominated by tea. Kenya is the world’s third largest producer and the leading exporter … Continue reading →

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Launching Resources and Tools for Biodiversity Conservation

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Rachel Friedman

Measurement and assessment of impacts from management practices is an important component of incorporating sustainability into agricultural businesses and supply chains. Building off of their post on the necessity of business engagement, Michael Zrust and Sophia Gnych of the Zoological … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Farm: What’s Next for Certification?

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Rachel Friedman

As the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil convenes its tenth meeting this week in Singapore, this is a key time to consider questions about sustainability certifications and standards. Andre Brosser, founder of Beagle Sustainable Solutions, provides some thoughts on the … Continue reading →

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A Tenth Anniversary for Sustainable Palm Oil

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Rachel Friedman

The annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil begins next Monday. Hosted in Singapore, the meeting will celebrate RSPO’s tenth anniversary of working towards sustainable business models. It will provide a platform for the various stakeholders in the industry … Continue reading →

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The Biodiversity Risk & Opportunity Assessment (BROA) tool

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rachel Friedman

With less than a week to go until the Convention on Biological Diversity begins, biodiversity is definitely the topic on hand, and the focus of the Landscapes Blog for the past few weeks. However, assessing risks to biodiversity and ecosystems … Continue reading →

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