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From Farm to Fork: How Technology Can Help Lift Smallholder Farmers Out of Poverty

The world produces enough food to feed every individual, yet almost 690 million people continue to go hungry. The irony is that many of those who are undernourished spend their days growing food for others. Smallholder farmers, who cultivate less than 5 acres of land, constitute a large portion of the world’s poor living on less than $2 a day, according to World Bank estimates.
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Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility
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GRI
Environment
Environment
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Sea Change Radio
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Black & Veatch NextGen Ag Develops Sustainable Infrastructure for Cultivated Meat Company
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Black & Veatch
Energy & Infrastructure
Energy & Infrastructure
Silver Oak Winery: World’s First Production Facility to Earn “Living Building” Certification
Silver Oak and the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) announced today that the winery has become the largest certified Living Building in the world.
International Living Future Institute
Environment
Environment
Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: What We Can Learn From Innovative Beverage Companies
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Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable
Corporate Responsibility
Corporate Responsibility
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Bayer
Philanthropy
Philanthropy
The Makers of Happy Little Plants® Products Support the National Young Farmers Coalition
The makers of the Happy Little Plants® products have announced a donation of $10,000 to support the efforts of the National Young Farmers Coalition, a nonprofit organization dedicated to agriculture and helping young farmers.
Hormel Foods Corporation
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Reforestation: More Than Planting Trees
Climate change and biodiversity loss are on everyone’s minds these days – as they should be.
Nestlé S.A.
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Responsible Production & the Circular Economy
Responsible Forestry in Kamloops Is Saving Wood From Slash Piles
A partnership between the Kamloops Mill and the Forest Enhancement Society of British Columbia, Canada, is allowing Domtar a new way to continue contributing to the circular economy by putting wood waste from slash piles to use at the mill.
Domtar