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From beer brewing in Bogota to mochas in Mexico, for the past few weeks the Landscapes Blog has covered the role of landscape approaches in business operations and supply chains, in light of the Landscapes Initiative's release of Reducing Risk: Landscape Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing. Across the cases reviewed in …

Editor's note: The following is the last case study featured in the Landscapes Initiative’s Reducing Risk: Landscapes Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing report. These case studies are meant to demonstrate how a landscape approach can benefit businesses and supply chains by managing environmental and social risks at …

For the past few weeks, business has been the topic of focus on the Landscapes Blog. Centered around the Landscapes Initiative's launch of Reducing Risk: Landscape Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing, the Blog has highlighted examples demonstrating a business case for more integrated approaches to agricultural land and …

Today marks the launch of the Landscapes Initiative's "Reducing Risk: Landscapes Approaches to Sustainable Sourcing" report. The report aims to demonstrate how a landscape approach can benefit businesses and supply chains by mitigating risks. Best practices are highlighted in three case studies, each an example of a…

The air is hot; the fields dry and dusty from last year’s sugarcane stalks now tilled back into the earth. As far as the eye can see the landscape is cultivated with soya beans, sugarcane, corn and pasture. This is central São Paulo state, Brazil. And here it is apparent what impact fast-expanding commodities, such …

[caption id="attachment_3005" align="alignnone" width="375"] A cocoa farmer on his cell phone among his cocoa trees. Photo credit: Olam[/caption] While environmental externalities have traditionally been ignored by the business community, for agribusiness in particular, natural feedback loops have started to turn thes…