SUPPLY CHAIN -
At SB’23 San Diego, a variety of brands and innovators discussed on-the-ground improvements cleaning up global and regional supply chains — and how to drive them further.
ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE -
At SB’23 San Diego, several discussions and events explored the potential for social impact when we rethink business as usual.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS -
Final-day keynotes at SB’23 San Diego explored various approaches to turning consumers into collaborators in our efforts to create an ethical, equitable, climate-resilient future for all.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
At SB’23 San Diego, we got several looks at some of the holistic, new approaches to agriculture that may just mitigate the risks in how our food — even meat — is produced.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Day 3 keynotes regaled SB’23 San Diego attendees with a peek at regenerative, circular and win-win-win social-purpose business models.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Naturally, food and its many issues has been a major topic this week at
SB’23 San Diego.
Here, two panels of innovators share their approaches to filling in systemic
gaps in our food system.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
This week at SB’23 San Diego, two illuminating panels featured experts from a variety of aspects of the emerging circular economy, who shared key insights and lessons learned in the pursuit of circularity.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
Nestlé is piloting a weather-insurance program for over 800 smallholder farmers in Indonesia and has contributed
to a guide for coffee farmers to shift to regenerative practices.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS -
By partnering with Regrow Ag to track and reduce supply chain emissions, Kellogg's and Oatly are driving change and increasing awareness through transparent, data-driven marketing.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
In an industry first, SAI Platform’s framework offers a globally aligned definition of regenerative agriculture — to which 30 agriculture co-ops and the 170-strong SAI Platform member group have already committed.
MATERIALS & PACKAGING -
Loliware, Uuvipak and Twiice have created rapidly biodegradable (and even edible) bio-based products that completely upstage their petroleum-based, single-use plastic-polluting counterparts.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
As part of Nestlé’s bid to source 50% of its key ingredients from regenerative-ag methods by 2030, the three are turning the waste steam into a win-win, circular solution for food companies and farmers alike.
NEW METRICS -
The NPI will clarify and standardize the term ‘nature positive;’ and drive synergies across the many actors supporting and implementing changes towards the goal of halting and reversing nature loss by 2030.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
A new report from WWF examines the efficacy of rewards for climate-smart on-farm practices in getting suppliers’ help in eliminating Scope 3 emissions.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
The massive coral-restoration project took place in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia — in the world’s most biologically complex marine ecosystem in the Coral Triangle — alongside Indonesian community partners.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
The bourbon producer is partnering with the University of Kentucky and a local trade group to find an economically and environmentally viable strain to
support one of its key ingredient needs.
COLLABORATION & CO-CREATION -
The global foodmaker has joined forces with Regrow Ag to cultivate resilience throughout its agricultural supply chain — and encourages other food companies to follow suit.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS -
‘Regenerative’ has become the latest trend — a label that’s stuck on anything as a way of making it sound positive and reassuring. To guarantee genuine progress, we need a universal set of principles underpinning regenerative economics and a standardised way of quantifying success.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
The food giant is investing to help US farms in its DIGIORNO wheat and tomato supply chains shift to more holistic agricultural practices.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
Robert Downey Jr's FootPrint Coalition is taking a three-pronged approach to boosting environmental science and technology — including a science engine that funds non-traditional innovators, a VC fund for scaling promising solutions, and a media platform that amplifies the innovations.