Food & Nature
Economic systems are outstripping the resources of the planet. Diets are resulting in both over- and under-nutrition. Humanity’s future depends on an urgent reset – the creation of systems that support healthy people and a healthy planet. WBCSD’s Food & Nature Program leads business efforts to accelerate the much-needed system transformation in the areas of food, nature and water. We do this by bringing leadership standards and tools, advocacy and projects across the value chain – from production to consumption – which deliver impact at scale where the urgent agendas of climate, nature and food systems intersect.
Program areas
Enabler Service Projects
Enabling services ensure that Food and Nature program members and projects benefit from knowledge and relationships developed in the broader external operating environment. Multi-stakeholder engagement and partnership are increasingly important in today’s interdependent and complex world. Policy and finance are two enablers that positively support the impact of our work.
Project list
Food and Agriculture
Our CEO Guide to Food System Transformation identified seven pathways where business must lead to drive system transformation and ensure delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. We address climate resilience and mitigation, nature and biodiversity loss, livelihoods and human rights, and nutrition and health.
Project list
Hosted Platforms
We work with businesses, partners and policy-makers to provide a clear and actionable path to being nature positive by 2030 and restoring nature by 2050. We create and host coalitions and projects to promote policy recommendations, develop guidance and contribute to science-based targets and frameworks, develop and align business solutions, mobilize business leadership, create awareness and enable knowledge sharing.
Business for Nature
A global umbrella coalition bringing together business organizations to demonstrate business action and advocate for the reversal of nature loss by this decade.
Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR)
An international multistakeholder, voluntary membership organization, with a mission to lead improvements in the socio-economic and environmental performance of the natural rubber value chain.
News and insights
Member Spotlight
WBCSD Communications | 27 Jan 2022
Nestlé announces innovative plan to tackle child labor risks, increase farmer income and achieve full traceability in cocoa
Resources
Agricultural and food production, distribution and consumption, and land use are key to achieving the SDGs. A focus on rural development and investment in agriculture are powerful tools to end poverty and hunger and achieve sustainable development. Nature action and sustainable water management also play a major role in combating climate change and in regenerating and preserving ecosystems.
Contacts
Diane Holdorf
Executive Vice President, Pathways
Clea Kaske-Kuck
Director, Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement & Member of the Extended Leadership Group
Emeline Fellus
Senior Director, Agriculture and Food & Member of the Extended Leadership Group
Tom Williams
Director, Agriculture and Food & Member of the Extended Leadership Group
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