- The role of business in development.
- S. Maxwell / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- Business interests do not always coincide with social interests. But interests do not have to be perfectly aligned for a productive partnership to develop. Opportunities must be seized to build new kinds of relationships with the priv...
- CSR initiatives are not enough- utilising the potential for businesses to assist development
- K. Ellis / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- This paper explores the issues behind business, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and development. It questions the true impact of CSR initiatives and provides suggestions on the best way forward to maximise the potential for bus...
- Maximising oil, gas and mining enterprise contribution to local enterprise
- M. Lynch / Engineers against Poverty, 2008
- A publication from Engineers Against Poverty for the extractive industries - an eight-page briefing note to guide oil, gas and mining (OGM) companies on how they can maximise the contribution of local enterprises to the supply chain o...
- Linking small-scale producers to modern markets: a practical guide
- S. Vermeulen; J. Woodhill; F. Proctor / International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
- Rapid changes in how food is produced, processed, wholesaled and retailed affects the entire value chain - from producer to consumer. Particularly in countries with developing and emerging economies, the pace of change brings signific...
- Fair and green trade: practical experiences from around the world
- K. Hampson (ed); J. Chavez-Tafur (ed); M. Salm (ed) / Agri Cultures Network, 2008
- What exactly is the impact of fair trade initiatives on small scale producers? And what are the problems and issues that arise during the complex process of putting fair trade ideas into practice? With the recent expansion of fair and...
- The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev)
- The Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev) is a funding mechanism for practical capacity building, training, technical assistance, implementation support, awareness-raising, and tool development. CommDev promotes trilateral partnerships among communities, local governments, and extractive industry companies to develop not only immediate win-win-win benefits...
- Getting companies to contribute towards development.
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2008
- This paper debates the issues around business contribution to development. It is derived from the proceedings of a conference organised by the European Office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and IFOK GmbH. The authors poin...
- Corporate governance in Asian economies.
- OECD Development Centre, 2007
- This paper presents a comparative table containing a comparative overview of the corporate governance frameworks in 13 Asian economies. The table is primarily based on information provided by experts in the respective economies. The i...
- Eradicating poverty- the contribution of fair trade schemes in forestry products
- V. Nelson; C. Collinson / Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 2008
- This paper examines the contribution that fair trade schemes in forestry products make to eradicate poverty. It considers the wider impacts on the local economy and explores successes, difficulties and limitations based on two case st...
- dependency and opportunities- the relationship between business and ecosystems.
- C. Hanson,; J. Finisdore,; J. Ranganathan, / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2008
- This paper points out that ecosystems provide businesses with numerous benefits or “ecosystem services.” Companies not only impact ecosystems and the services they provide but also depend on them. Therefore ecosystem degra...
- Overcoming the organic certification barrier: case studies from Thailand, India, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Brazil
- P. Santacoloma / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007
- Certification is critical in organic markets as it enables organic producers to access new export and domestic market opportunities and premium prices due to the fact that organic quality adds value to products. Whilst in develop...
- How policy-makers can establish a national programme on sustainable consumption and production
- B. Matthew / United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
- In the context of climate change, it has become clear that our global community urgently needs to adopt more sustainable life-styles to both reduce the use of natural resources and CO2 emissions. In accordance with the “Mar...
- Challenges associated with certification of sugarcane and soy
- A. Bebb (ed) / Friends of the Earth International, 2008
- Are certification schemes handling the environmental and social problems caused by vast monocultures of sugarcane and soy? This research looks at the production of sugarcane and soy in the Mercosur countries in Latin America and exami...
- How to use the considerable potential synergies between aid donors and private banks
- J. RodrÃguez; J. Santiso / OECD Development Centre, 2007
- Over the past decade, aid donors have shown interest for the private financial sector while, at the same time, private banks have shown increasing concern for corporate social responsibility. Private banks are actively involved in dev...
- Supporting temporary markets to prevent excessive concentration in food retailing damaging both poor consumers and small farmers
- P. Moustier / Making markets work better for the poor, 2006
- The number of supermarkets in Vietnam is increasing due to government incentives, increased urbanisation and growing purchasing power. However, for price and access reasons, street vending remains the dominant retail mode. Poor consum...
- How can MNCs target small and medium-sized (SME) suppliers in their sustainable supply chain management?
- M. Andersen; R.G. Skovgaard / Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, 2008
- MNCs are increasingly introducing programs to ensure that their suppliers uphold certain social and environmental standards. Many suppliers who deliver components or finished products – either directly or indirectly – to t...
- Coffee in Tanzania: key trends in sustainability standards
- E.,A. Lazaro; J. Makindara; F.,T.,M. Kilima / Danish Institute for International Studies, 2008
- One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countries. This paper aims to identify crit...
- Agricultural biotechnology in Africa: selected resources from SciDev.Net
- SciDev.Net, 2008
- Sub-Saharan Africa is a hotbed of activity in agricultural biotechnology — from research initiatives for tackling local pests to commercial growing of genetically modified crops. This SciDev.Net page on "Agro-biotech in Africa l...
- Can the ICT sector leverage its unique position in exapnding economic opportunity?
- W.J. Kramerand; B. Jenkins; R.S. Katz / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
- This report focuses on the role of information and communications technology (ICT) sector in expanding economic opportunity. It is part of a series exploring the connections between international development, business, and corporate s...
- Danish SMEs in global value chains
- A.L. Jorgensen; J.S. Knudsen / Copenhagen Centre for Corporate Responsibility, 2006
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have increasingly become integrated into global value chains, where they face social and environmental requirements from multinational buyers. This paper examines the role of SMEs with respect...
- Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR)
- Based at University of Glasgow. Produces a journal: Social and Environmental Accounting (formerly Social Accounting Monitor). WWW includes list of publications, introductory bibliography and links to sources on internal/external evaluation of company disclosure policy. Membership provides extra Web privileges.
- UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF)
- UKSIF's aim is "to promote and encourage the development and positive impact of Socially Responsible Investment in the UK" through a process of research, dissemination and advocacy. Maintains a WWW site with full text of seminar reports, UKSIF magazine, and information on the Forum.
- Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA)
- NGO researching and publishing on companies behind brand names, and promoting the ethical use of consumer power. Monitors company performance in relating to involvement with: oppressive regimes, trade union relations, wages, land rights, environment, irresponsible marketing, nuclear power, armaments, animal rights, political donations and boycott calls. Publishes journal "The Ethical Consumer", wi...
- Centre for Environmental Labelling, University of British Colombia (CEL)
- Centre focusing on the use of environmental labelling world-wide, its use as an environmental policy instrument, marketing considerations, harmonisation of different national standards and advocacy work. WWW site includes country specific labelling programme information, bibliography and holds information on the Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN), formed by national and multinational ecolabel lice...
- Social Investment Forum, USA (SIF)
- Guides to ethical investment, reports on investment trends in sector (with strong USA bias).
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
- IFOAM is the worldwide umbrella organization for the organic movement, uniting more than 750 member organizations in 108 countries. IFOAM's mission is leading, uniting and assisting the organic movement in its full diversity. Our goal is the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture...
