Closing the climate action gap in agriculture: From intent to reality

11 January 2024 | Category: Agriculture, Policy

A recently published article presents a comprehensive framework for global monitoring and tracking of climate action based on intent, need, scope, and readiness of climate policies in food systems. Climate change acts as a risk multiplier by exacerbating biodiversity loss, perpetuating poverty traps through extreme weather events, and posing threats…

Can we learn to invest in impact?

22 March 2022 | Category: Policy

When asking the question if we can learn to integrate impact investment into societal impact, the answer is automatically yes, because we have the proof of concept. Why are we not doing it, is a harder question to answer as it is intrinsically not true to state that business does…

Strong need to improve cocoa governance

11 January 2022 | Category: Policy

There is a vivid and ongoing debate on different strategies for improving the position of cocoa smallholders in West Africa. Several studies focussed on opportunities for poverty reduction in the cocoa sector, looking at the role of land tenancy, the impact of fair trade, the opportunities for living wages and…