Recognition, acceptance and demand for Rainforest Alliance Certified products by consumers and companies is growing fast. With this growth comes the need to help identify, introduce and link small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) right along the supply chain to sustainable sources of investment and to funders. With our expertise in the field – in what is often termed out “muddy boots” approach – international funders recognize that Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms and producers have built environmental, social and economic sustainability and resiliency into their practices. This goes a long way to encourage lenders to lend. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posts Tagged ‘Economic’
Helping farmers secure sustainable finance
21/12/2011Q&A with Tensie Whelan: Understanding Sustainable Value Chain Finance
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n April 2011, the Rainforest Alliance and Citi Foundation joined forces to host a Sustainable Value Chain Finance Workshop in New York. Although farmers, buyers, exporters, retailers and financial representatives had already been discussing sustainability and value chain finance in terms of their own work, this was the first forum at which a diverse group of stakeholders representing various links in the value chain had gathered to exchange ideas on the topic. In light of a new report summarising the workshop’s outcomes, Rainforest Alliance president Tensie Whelan sheds some light on sustainable value chain finance, and explains why it’s key to the Rainforest Alliance’s work.
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Biodiversity – fundamental to life and our economy.
25/11/2011Monday sees one of the most important conferences of the year taking place in London. It will debate the role that biodiversity and ecosystems play in sustaining our economy and providing us with services vital to life. The Rainforest Alliance’s own Edward Millard will be speaking at this conference. Here John Brown, Director of Global Business of Biodiversity writes about the conference and what it is aiming to achieve. Readers of this blog can get a special discount by signing up via the link below.
With only a few days to go to the GBOB-GBOF on 28th November, things are coming along and we are anticipating a really good outcome.
We have over 60 speakers, ready to share their experiences and provide insight into how they are best adopting practices and implementing actions throughout their organisations, for the benefit of the environment and for all life on earth.
There is no doubt that we need to widen the debate about biodiversity because our ecosystems provide irreplaceable services which sustain our economies, they underpin our food, water, energy, health and climate security worldwide. As the world community explores new ways to step up the fight against global warming, it’s also time for business to give serious thoughts about the synergies existing between the tools we have to fight climate change and the tools we have to protect biodiversity, and our ecosystems. More importantly still how biodiversity can and should be a principal tool for people in combating the risks presented by environmental change. The past failure to understand the significance is being addressed by economists and sector leaders who are urgently examining the business models for the future, which will make a difference. So what does this mean to your business? How can your organization become part of the solution in the Global Business of Biodiversity? Read the rest of this entry ?
