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Book Synopsis Creating Shared Value in the Cocoa Value Chain by : Vera Zimmerli
Download or read book Creating Shared Value in the Cocoa Value Chain written by Vera Zimmerli and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reportedly low functionality rates of rural water supplies in sub-Saharan Africa point at the importance of increasing the sustainability of water and sanitation supplies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 6 and to enhance health, social and economic development. The consultancy report for a water, sanitation and hygiene project in Ghana observed that other factors than the safety of water are important for people's decisions on a water service and that these factors are clustered around convenience. As further part of this consultancy, this thesis explores the role of convenience for water and sanitation services in cocoa producing communities in Ghana and the implications on a project design by consolidating field observations, interviews and theoretical insights. It is shown that customers perceive convenience as added value. Therefore, convenience is a driving factor for the acceptance of water and sanitation services and for the customer's willingness to pay. Thereof necessary conditions for the project design of a water and sanitation project, which aims at achieving sustainability through cost recovery, result. The customer-perceived convenience of the target group in Ghana requires for water services a shift away from handpumps towards limited-mechanized systems. For sanitation services, a shift away from awareness creation towards building sanitation markets is required.
Book Synopsis Creating Shared Value by : Asit K. Biswas
Download or read book Creating Shared Value written by Asit K. Biswas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestlé’s Moga factory was set up in 1961 and comprises of the primary milk collection area for Nestlé‘s operations. Since its inception in Moga, Nestlé has been working with its milk farmers and ancillary suppliers towards improving quality and productivity. The study presented in this book (carried out by the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico) highlights Nestlé’s way of doing business through its philosophy of Creating Shared Value (CSV) and how it contributed to the development of the region over the past 50 years through direct and indirect employment, steady income for milk and other suppliers, and technology transfer. The main objective of the study is to learn to what extent has Nestlé contributed to fulfilling the societal aspirations and expectations of the people working in and around its factory in terms of employment generation, poverty alleviation, general improvements in the community’s standards of living and environmental conservation. The study also tried to determine to what extent has the company created shared value for itself, milk farmers, ancillary firms, and the community at large. This effort aims at encouraging more research to be carried out to comprehensively and authoritatively look into the impacts private sector can have on and around the area where their factories are located and that way, contribute to our understanding of social-corporate-government interdependency. An important aspect of this pioneering monograph is the methodology that could be used to study how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or Creating Shared Value (CSV) of a large multinational company can be properly monitored and objectively evaluated at a region-specific scale, especially as very few studies of this nature have been carried out anywhere in the world. This definitive book is further enriched by a foreword by Prof. Michael Porter of Harvard Business School and an epilogue by Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Nestlé respectively.
Book Synopsis Stakeholder Management. The Sustainable Management of Nestlé's Cocoa Supply Chain in the Ivory Coast by : Rodrigue Bienvenue Nanfack
Download or read book Stakeholder Management. The Sustainable Management of Nestlé's Cocoa Supply Chain in the Ivory Coast written by Rodrigue Bienvenue Nanfack and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 3, University of Wuppertal (Schumpeter school of business), course: CSR, language: English, abstract: Stakeholder Management with long-term sustainability is decisive in determining whether a business organization is being successful or not. Stakeholder Management has a direct impact on the company’s competitiveness and its environment. The most profitable companies have strong relationships with their relevant stakeholders groups, that is, the stakeholders in their business field. Stakeholder Management has a wide actively and effectively challenge to manage these important relationships with their different stakeholders groups. Strong customer relationships, successful relationships with suppliers, committed employees and good relationships with other stakeholders groups define the winners of today in the world ́s global economy and that is why companies like Nestlé understand, that they should keep an important and a great relationship with their stakeholders. To be able to achieve a sustainable stakeholder management, organizations first have to define who their key stakeholders are, they have to be able to understand their needs, then secondly, they should define what kind of stakeholder management system applies thereto.
Book Synopsis Information Sharing for Sustainability Impact Reporting by : Marie-Luise Rau
Download or read book Information Sharing for Sustainability Impact Reporting written by Marie-Luise Rau and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mechanisms for Shared Responsibility in the Cocoa Global Value Chain by : Amanda Francisco da Silva
Download or read book Mechanisms for Shared Responsibility in the Cocoa Global Value Chain written by Amanda Francisco da Silva and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing Sustainable Food Value Chains by : David Neven
Download or read book Developing Sustainable Food Value Chains written by David Neven and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2014 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using sustainable food value chain development (SFVCD) approaches to reduce poverty presents both great opportunities and daunting challenges. SFVCD requires a systems approach to identifying root problems, innovative thinking to find effective solutions and broad-based partnerships to implement programmes that have an impact at scale. In practice, however, a misunderstanding of its fundamental nature can easily result in value-chain projects having limited or non-sustainable impact. Furthermore, development practitioners around the world are learning valuable lessons from both failures and successes, but many of these are not well disseminated. This new set of handbooks aims to address these gaps by providing practical guidance on SFVCD to a target audience of policy-makers, project designers and field practitioners. This first handbook provides a solid conceptual foundation on which to build the subsequent handbooks. It (1) clearly defines the concept of a sustainable food value chain; (2) presents and discusses a development paradigm that integrates the multidimensional concepts of sustainability and value added; (3) presents, discusses and illustrates ten principles that underlie SFVCD; and (4) discusses the potential and limitations of using the value-chain concept in food-systems development. By doing so, the handbook makes a strong case for placing SFVCD at the heart of any strategy aimed at reducing poverty and hunger in the long run.
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :9251314276 Total Pages :104 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (513 download)
Book Synopsis Changing the terms of women's engagement in cocoa and coffee supply chains by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Changing the terms of women's engagement in cocoa and coffee supply chains written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this report, FAO, Twin, KIT and other case holders take a close look at gender inequalities in the cocoa and coffee sectors, and their underlying causes. The included case studies are structured around four themes including: women’s participation and leadership in producer organisations, women’s access to land, the household approach and innovations in extension services. The report also explores how to address inequalities systematically and how to bring the solutions to scale.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management by : Thomas Y. Choi
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management written by Thomas Y. Choi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chain management contends with structures and processes for delivering goods and services to customers. It addresses the core functions of connected businesses to meet downstream demand. This innovative volume provides an authoritative and timely guide to the overarching issues that are ubiquitous throughout the supply chain. In particular, it addresses emerging issues that are applicable across supply chains--such as data science, financial flows, human capital, internet technologies, risk management, cyber security, and supply networks. With chapters from an international roster of leading scholars in the field, the Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management is a necessary resource for all students and researchers of the field as well as for forward-thinking practitioners.
Book Synopsis What is the 'value' in the Value Chain Approach? Smallholder Risk Assessment, Mitigation, and Coping Behavior Among High Value and Conventional Cocoa Chains in Ghana by : Katie Diane Ricketts
Download or read book What is the 'value' in the Value Chain Approach? Smallholder Risk Assessment, Mitigation, and Coping Behavior Among High Value and Conventional Cocoa Chains in Ghana written by Katie Diane Ricketts and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 60 years, linking smallholder farmers to global and domestic market opportunities has been an important policy and programmatic focus for governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private companies alike. Recently, approaches to creating market opportunities for smallholder farmers have included 'value-chains for development.' This approach has been touted as a way to integrate smallholder farmers into higher-value, generally global markets, which promise to increase producer incomes and promote smallholder access to important benefits and services. Looking across the value chain development literature at many of the approaches taken, higher value market opportunities using the value chain approach seem to divide between chains that focus on certified production practices, and chains that focus on creating high value products. Examples of value chains centered on certified production practices include organic products, products free from child or slave labor, or those that meet specified levels of on-farm biodiversity. The second type of value chains are those concerned purely with product characteristics, whereby methods and cultivation or processing practices are unimportant except for how they contribute to final attributes of the product. These outputfocused chains include the cultivation of special or unique varieties aimed at niche or novelty markets, like unique varieties of cocoa or coffee, or non-traditional horticulture exports. We approach this research with two propositions: first, that shared risk management strategies, and perceptions of risk and benefits may each offer some characterization of the value chains that growers participate in. Second, at a broad, perhaps stylized level, we contend that the generic, 'value chain approach' is often not very helpful in estimating impact, illuminating participation patterns, or describing potential development benefits. This is to say, that not all iii value chains are necessarily equal in their potential to create development benefits. We contend that the particular type of value emphasized and created along the chain has important and meaningful implications at the farm-level for environmental sustainability, productivity, and household welfare. To answer these questions we look across three cocoa value chains in Ghana: one that focuses on production practices (Rainforest Alliacnce/Organic), one that focuses on high value, niche products (Fine Flavor cocoa), and finally, a conventional chain. The research is divided into three essays. The first considers if farmers in the same value chain perceive the same risks and benefits of participation. The second looks at how farmers in different chains mitigate and cope with risk. Last, we estimate t how these coping mechanisms, risk perceptions, and value chain benefits might illuminate membership patterns. The research in this thesis suggests optimism for using the value chain approach as a way to reallocate and redistribute risk, but with several important caveats. First, looking at cocoa chains in Ghana it is evident that growers face systemic risks that are severe, frequent, and pervasive no matter what value chain an individual participates in. However, the frequency and intensity of these shocks do appear to differ amongst chain groups, as do expectations for earnings and other perceived benefits of participation. Second, farmers across chains have similar approaches for risk management, preferring to use savings and other financial tools, followed by labor manipulations, household consumption reductions, and finally the sale of assets. While growers use these 'toolsets' in a similar order, the exact tools used appear to differ. We find evidence that suggests that certain tools may place unique burdens on growers and demand important tradeoffs. iv.
Book Synopsis Creation of Shared Value Through Sustainable Value Chain Initiatives by : Jakob Schellhorn
Download or read book Creation of Shared Value Through Sustainable Value Chain Initiatives written by Jakob Schellhorn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simultaneous creation of value for economic, social and ecological stakeholders remains a huge challenge for companies, especially those that operate in a variety of different countries. Therefore, this thesis explores the creation of sustainable value by corporate entities using eight representative case studies derived from collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Zurich. The research objects are sustainable value chain initiatives (SVCIs), which are defined as individual measures taken by firms to improve the sustainability profile of their existing value chains. The eight case studies present examples of recent SVCIs within multinational corporations (MNCs) representing various industries and product segments. This thesis examines how creation of shared value, i.e., the combined generation of both economic and social and/or economic benefits, can be achieved by individual sustainability initiatives along the different phases of the value chain. Identifying four crucial levers, this research derives implications for the design and management of successful SVCIs. Finally, a potential tool for the management of SVCIs in practice is developed.
Book Synopsis Sustainable Value Chain Management by : Michael D'heur
Download or read book Sustainable Value Chain Management written by Michael D'heur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the integrated management concept of "Sustainable Value Creation", which delivers sustainability ‘inside-out’ from the core business. It is based on the premise that sustainability can provide a platform for growth, if it is implemented in a company’s products, services and supply chains (combined also known as the 'Value Chain'). Managing the Value Chain from the outset with a sustainability mindset subsequently allows profitable economical, ecological and societal growth. It combines the need for increased sustainability and its implementation in the operations of a company. The book addresses the following issues: How do economic, environmental and societal factors impact the value-creation process of a company? What requirements and expectations need to be met to balance economic, ecologic and societal value creation? What are the building blocks and measures that can be utilized on the journey towards building a sustainable value chain? What benefits can be achieved through sustainable value chains? What are the practical examples of sustainable value chains in leading companies that can inspire others to follow? The book includes contributions from the following organisations and companies: Beiersdorf, SAP, Klenk und Hoursch, VAUDE, Infineon Technologies, Independent Capital Management, BASF, Nanogate, the Federal German Council for Sustainable Development, Henkel, Symrise, shared.value.chain, Siemens, Fairphone and Thin Air Factory
Book Synopsis The Art of Leading Collectively by : Petra Kuenkel
Download or read book The Art of Leading Collectively written by Petra Kuenkel and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to collaborative impact for leaders in industry, government, and social change networks Our world is facing unsustainable global trends—from climate change and water scarcity to energy insecurity, unfair labor practices, and growing inequality. Tackling these crises effectively requires a new form of leadership—a collective one. But, in a world of many silos, how do we get people to work together toward a common goal? That is one of the most important questions facing sustainability and social-change professionals around the world, and it is a question that Petra Kuenkel answers in The Art of Leading Collectively. Readers learn how to tackle system change for sustainable development, reimagine leadership as a collaborative endeavor, retrain leaders to work collectively, and manage diverse groups through a change process that has sustainability as a guiding focus. Drawing upon two decades of pioneering, internationally recognized work orchestrating multi-stakeholder initiatives, Kuenkel presents her chief tool, the Collective Leadership Compass, and shows others how to use it with large groups of diverse stakeholders to solve complex, urgent problems—particularly those that enmesh business activities, governance, human needs, and environmental impacts. The book offers many examples of collective leadership efforts involving corporate, public, and nonprofit sectors around the world. Readers learn about the processes that led to a sustainable textile alliance and set standards for sustainable cocoa and coffee production and trade, as well as those that helped nations rebound from war, develop sustainable infrastructure, and tackle resource conflicts with global businesses, to name a few. Kuenkel provides a clear roadmap for leaders from multinational companies involved in partnerships, international organizations engaged in cooperative development, public agencies, and interest groups—as well as for citizens seeking solutions to social and sustainability challenge
Book Synopsis Managing Sustainable Business by : Gilbert G. Lenssen
Download or read book Managing Sustainable Business written by Gilbert G. Lenssen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers 32 texts and case studies from across a wide range of business sectors around a managerial framework for Sustainable Business. The case studies are developed for and tested in executive education programmes at leading business schools. The book is based on the premise that the key for managing the sustainable business is finding the right balance over time between managing competitiveness and profitability AND managing the context of the business with its political, social and ecological risks and opportunities. In that way, a sustainable business is highly responsive to the demands and challenges from both markets and societies and managers embrace the complexity, ambivalence and uncertainty that goes along with this approach. The book presents a framework that facilitates the adoption of best business practice. This framework leads executives through a systematic approach of strategic analysis and business planning in risk management, issues management, stakeholder management, sustainable business development and strategic differentiation, business model innovation and developing dynamic capabilities. The approach helps broaden the understanding of what sustainable performance means, by protecting business value against sustainability risks and creating business value from sustainability opportunities.
Book Synopsis Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the chocolate industry by : Oliver Thomas
Download or read book Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the chocolate industry written by Oliver Thomas and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,0, Leipzig Graduate School of Management, course: Logistik, language: English, abstract: Sustainability has become a significant issue in many companies as it affects their reputation among customers. At the same time, outsourcing and globalization have resulted in the spreading out of supply chains across continents. Therefore, the focus of implementing sustainability has shifted from the single organization to the entire supply chain. This is of particular importance for chocolate manufacturers with their multinational supply chains as they are held responsible by the public for any irregularities which happen in their supply chain. Chocolate brand owners have been confronted with increasing criticism and pressure from politics and public due to the lack of sustainability in their supply chain. A current example is the TV documentary “Schmutzige Schokolade”, a film about child labor on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, for which the Danish filmmaker Miki Mistrati blames the chocolate manufacturers. The film, which was broadcasted on ARD on October, 6th, 2010, at 11:30p.m., has been sold altogether to 18 countries and was consequently watched by several million television viewers. This paper focuses on Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the chocolate industry. The following chapter contains a short theoretical introduction to the topic. It then focuses on giving an overview of the European, and there specifically on the German chocolate industry. Furthermore, it puts focus on the raw material cocoa from Ivory Coast, as cocoa butter and cocoa powder are among the main ingredients of chocolate and Ivory Coast is the world’s largest cocoa producer country. The last two chapters include the description of the importance, weak points, challenges and possible concepts of Sustainable Supply Chain Management for cocoa. The paper finishes with a summary and an outlook.
Book Synopsis Agriculture & Food Systems To 2050: Global Trends, Challenges And Opportunities by : Rachid Serraj
Download or read book Agriculture & Food Systems To 2050: Global Trends, Challenges And Opportunities written by Rachid Serraj and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a comprehensive foresight assessment, exploring the pressures — threats as well as opportunities — on the global agriculture & food systems between now and 2050. The overarching aim is to help readers understand the context, by analyzing global trends and anticipating change for better planning and constructing pathways from the present to the future by focusing on the right questions and problems. The book contextualizes the role of international agricultural research in addressing the complex challenges posed by UN 2030 Agenda and beyond, and identifies the decisions that scientific leaders, donors and policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more combined with rising incomes and changing diets can be fed sustainably and equitably, in the face of the growing climate threats.
Book Synopsis Foundations of Sustainable Business by : Nada R. Sanders
Download or read book Foundations of Sustainable Business written by Nada R. Sanders and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Sustainable Business is designed to introduce future business leaders to the most important social and environmental issues of our generation. From the perspectives of a business thought-leader and a public interest policy expert, the text provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to sustainable business that integrates sustainable policies into all core business functions, including leadership, finance, accounting, risk management, marketing, supply chain management, and operations. Presenting sustainability as a strategic priority for all aspects of business, the text clearly defines all key concepts and shows how social, economic, and environmental trends are interconnected and relevant to corporate strategy. While the text provides an honest look at climate change, human trafficking, and environmental issues such as water shortage and ecosystem health, all normative guidance is based on traditional business value propositions, taking into account cost, risk, strategy, marketing potential, and operational feasibility. Additionally, the text offers a variety of pedagogical tools in each chapter to provide an engaging, qualitative-based learning process. Each chapter ends with original cases with focused questions that test comprehension of concepts. With in-chapter discussion questions, illustrative diagrams, ethical dilemmas, managerial insights, links to fascinating TED Talk videos, and on-point Harvard Business Review cases, Foundations of Sustainable Business is user-friendly for instructors and accessible to students.
Book Synopsis CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformation by : Virginia Munro
Download or read book CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformation written by Virginia Munro and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformation focuses on a new type of CSR, which includes entrepreneurial innovation, sustainable goals and shared and integrated value in a systems-oriented approach for deep transformation. All topics are backed by case studies, academic literature and future research opportunities.
