February 2012
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17 twitter accounts you should follow on CSR and...
Illustration by scott_hampson.
As we love sharing curated content on down to Earth, we do a daily CSR - Sustainability watch. Here are 17 of the best twitter accounts sharing great CSR / sustainability content everyday!
@3BLMedia
For 3BLMedia, CSR is more than press releases. It is videos, blogs, and more. 3BL is the leading distributor of CSR & sustainability news and content across...
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Infographic: A global picture of health food
On good.is:
A global survey conducted by The Nielsen Company last year found that people from different countries and cultures generally agree on how to lose weight and what foods are the healthiest.
@adeline_bordot
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The Danone Ecosystem Fund
We have been posting a lot of contents related to the Danone Ecosystem Fund, without really taking the time to clarify the meaning of this fund, and the type of projects we support through this platform:
The Danone Ecosystem Fund was created at Danone’s shareholders’ meeting of April 23rd 2009. Danone made a capital endowment of € 100 million into the Fund and in addition to this, every...
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Tropical forests : more carbon absorbing sinks.
Photography © Mr Perswall
New estimates of U.S. researchers at the research center in Woods Hole and Boston University and Maryland, have shown that the storage capacity of tropical forests would be 20% higher than what had been estimated earlier scientific calculations.
It is no longer a secret: the forests are great carbon sinks which play an essential role in the ecosystem. But if this...
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Improving nutrition and health through agriculture
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Reblogged from Farming First:
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has launched a new book entitled “Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health”. Originally the policy briefs for the conference “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health,” facilitated by IFRPI’s 2020 Vision Initiative in India one year ago, this...
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Dannon US promotes childhood nutrition education...
Dannon established the Dannon Next Generation Nutrition® grant program in 2006 to promote childhood nutrition education in communities. Each organization that receives a grant creates a program that helps children develop life-long habits for good nutrition and exercise.
Dannon will award grants of $30,000 to four nonprofits for programs that promote healthy eating and support nutrition...
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"We are studying the impact of women's income...
(Photo @William Alix SIPA PRESS)
Here is the third article of our focus on women empowerment, an interview of Corinne Bazina, Executive Director at Grameen Danone Foods Ltd.
Which link do you make between social business and women empowerment?
“Throughout our social business initiatives, we try to rethink the role of a private company when it comes to creating local job opportunities....
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Infographic: Facts about the global water crisis
Designed By Jacob Johnson
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A Responsibility and a Market: Why Danone May...
Reblogged from Next Billon, wrote by Josh Cleveland.
The “future of BOP business” is a sweeping, flashy claim. Yet Danone’s strategy appears to be different for all the right, non-flashy reasons.
A strict focus on unit economics, clear understanding of the business’ role in social impact, and most of all, direct links between base of the pyramid (BOP) market growth and core business...
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Danone Ecosystem: supporting women as they play a...
Limited access to education or job opportunities, domestic violence increase,financial dependence… Women are usually more vulnerable and affected by inequities due to national cultures or stereotyped sharing out of responsibilities between men and women.
As it impacts territories where Danone operates, empowering women is at the heart of some Danone Ecosystem Fund’s projects, as...
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3 Pathways to Social Business: An Infographic of...
Reblogged from www.globaldawn.co:
This explanatory infographic shows all the routes business has travelled in order to become more social.
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Livelihoods Fund and Yagasu : A wonderful story...
By Jean-Pierre Rennaud, General Delegate of Livelihoods Venture
On December 22nd, Jean-Pierre Rennaud, General Delegate of Livelihoods Venture and Guillaume Bouculat, CFO of Livelihoods Venture went to Paluhkuro (Indonesia North Sumatra) to inaugurate the first planting of mangrove run by Yagasu, a local NGO. This is the latest project supported by the Livelihoods fund.
After a one...
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Danone's 30% target for CO2 reduction by 2012: we...
In 2008, Danone set an ambitious goal of a 30 percent global carbon footprint reduction by 2012 across the entire supply chain, including plants and factories, packaging and end-of-cycle disposal, transportation and storage. To meet this challenge, Danone and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) have brought together their expertise and know-how to build an innovative solution that measures the company’s...
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Fred Kirschenmann - Soil: From Dirt to Lifeline
“I’m not a soil scientist, I’m just a farmer”. In this Tedx video, Fred Kirschenmann gives us a vibrant yet very simple lesson on the importance of soil as a community of life, and the link between the quality of the soils and that of the food we grow.
Great video!
Reblogged from Common Dreams:
Fred Kirschenmann has been involved in sustainable agriculture and food...
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Newsletter down to Earth #6
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Livelihoods Fund carbon project in India receives...
The Livelihoods Carbon project of planting 6 million fruit trees in partnership with Naandi in Araku (India) has just been officially approved by the federal government of India. It follows a process started 16 months ago with the DNA (Designated National Authority), the official body responsible for carbon projects registration.
The recognition of the quality of the process implemented by...
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“After Durban, it is not yet the end of the road. The path is still open, but for...”
– Bernard Giraud, President of Livelihoods Venture
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GAIN and John Hopkins University about fortified...
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and John Hopkins University conducted a study to evaluate the impact of Shokti Doi, a Grameen Danone Foods Ltd’s fortified yogurt on the nutritional status and cognitive performance of school-aged children in Bangladesh.The first Shokti Doi cup was sold in 2007.
Five years after the beginning of this story, what can we say about...
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Lessons in sustainability from Gandhi
Reblogged from Triple Pundit and wrote by Akhila Vijayaraghavan
January 30th 2012 is Gandhi’s 64th death anniversary and four days ago, India celebrated her Republic Day. It struck me that there are some sharp parallels between Gandhian philosophies and the sustainability movement. Here are my observations:
Localism
Gandhi was a strong proponent of localism, be it food, clothing or...