Environment
Response: Collaborating Can Optimize Circularity’s Benefits
People working within fashion supply chains must collaborate to determine where and how their evolving business models can contribute to circularity.
People working within fashion supply chains must collaborate to determine where and how their evolving business models can contribute to circularity.
As the fashion industry’s environmental footprint attracts increasingly negative attention, circular business models are promoting opportunities to sustain growth by decoupling revenue streams from resource use.
In this Up for Debate series, Ken Pucker, former Timberland COO, explains the industry’s turn to circularity and the barriers to its adoption, then researchers and experts in the sector respond.
It’s time for funders to get real about what social entrepreneurs need to succeed.
Businesses need to take actions that improve not only the environment, but also human health and well-being, particularly among vulnerable communities in their value chains.
How businesses can transform procurement practices to strengthen farmer livelihoods and improve environmental impacts.
An excerpt from Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source on the failure of peer-to-peer lending.
Vega Coffee lifts up struggling coffee growers in Latin America by enabling them to roast, package, and ship their own beans directly to US customers—and reinvents the supply chain in the process.
How civil society responses to COVID-19 in South Africa are resisting the all-too-common return to pre-crisis “normal.”
Increasing access to quality food worldwide requires money from investors for food-related enterprises. Blended finance can help boost their risk tolerance. A Viewpoint from the Summer 2020 issue.
Effectively tackling farmer poverty in global supply chains is not about repeating what others have tried in the past—it’s about doing business differently.