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Year three: highlights from the Good Growth Partnership
It's been three years since the launch of the Good Growth Partnership. Learn more about the impacts and progress we have made so far.
Time to Put Good Evidence to Good Use
One year since the launch of Evidensia, the go-to source of credible evidence on key sustainability issues.
Sustainable livestock can stimulate conservation, facilitate governance, and alleviate poverty in Latin America
How sustainable livestock systems have the potential to support countries in the reduction of environmental conflicts, the promotion of the conservation of ecosystems and the generation of economic benefits for families.
Can COVID-19 be a cure for nature?
What if we use what we have learned from the pandemic to find a way to live in a relationship with ourselves, each other and nature that is caring, nurturing and flourishing?
The time for collaboration is now: Strengthening Farmer Support Systems through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change
Launching the Farmer Support Toolkit, a guidance note to improve the lives of commodity producers and their communities while protecting important vulnerable ecosystems.
COVID-19 pandemic adds to drought and pricing concerns in the Paraguayan Chaco
For regions already dealing with negative trends in global climate and global trade, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new pressures on top of drought and low prices.
Time to Put Good Evidence to Good Use
One year since the launch of Evidensia, the go-to source of credible evidence on key sustainability issues.
Sustainable livestock can stimulate conservation, facilitate governance, and alleviate poverty in Latin America
How sustainable livestock systems have the potential to support countries in the reduction of environmental conflicts, the promotion of the conservation of ecosystems and the generation of economic benefits for families.
Can COVID-19 be a cure for nature?
What if we use what we have learned from the pandemic to find a way to live in a relationship with ourselves, each other and nature that is caring, nurturing and flourishing?
The time for collaboration is now: Strengthening Farmer Support Systems through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change
Launching the Farmer Support Toolkit, a guidance note to improve the lives of commodity producers and their communities while protecting important vulnerable ecosystems.
COVID-19 pandemic adds to drought and pricing concerns in the Paraguayan Chaco
For regions already dealing with negative trends in global climate and global trade, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new pressures on top of drought and low prices.
How can companies and governments collaborate better for sustainable agricultural production?
Value Beyond Value Chains: Guidance Note for the Private [...]
Year three: highlights from the Good Growth Partnership
It's been three years since the launch of the Good Growth Partnership. Learn more about the impacts and progress we have made so far.
Year two: highlights from the Good Growth Partnership
It's been two years since the launch of the Good Growth Partnership. Learn more about the impacts and progress we have made so far.
Year one: highlights from the Good Growth Partnership
It's been one year since the launch of the Good Growth Partnership. Learn more about the impacts and progress we have made so far.
Good Growth Partnership aims to put Liberia’s palm oil sector on a sustainable path
Agriculture Minister, Mogana Flomo emphasized the government’s commitment to ensuring that Liberia’s pristine forests are protected as the country moves to improve livelihoods and the economy.
Sustainability heavyweights take aim at environmental impacts of soy, beef, palm oil
A new effort is aiming to minimize the environmental impacts of soy, beef and palm oil — by bringing together some of the world’s most significant players in sustainability.
Major Players Join Forces to Place Sustainability at the Heart of Global Commodity Supply Chain
Opening the launch, UNDP’s Administrator Achim Steiner emphasized how genuine partnership is the only way to seize the tremendous opportunities a green agriculture economy offers
In Photos: New York Launch of the Good Growth Partnership
On 6 September 2017, some of the world’s largest conservation, development and finance organizations, as well as government representatives from major producer countries, gathered at the United Nations in New York today to launch the Good Growth Partnership.
Time to Put Good Evidence to Good Use
One year since the launch of Evidensia, the go-to source of credible evidence on key sustainability issues.
Sustainable livestock can stimulate conservation, facilitate governance, and alleviate poverty in Latin America
How sustainable livestock systems have the potential to support countries in the reduction of environmental conflicts, the promotion of the conservation of ecosystems and the generation of economic benefits for families.
Can COVID-19 be a cure for nature?
What if we use what we have learned from the pandemic to find a way to live in a relationship with ourselves, each other and nature that is caring, nurturing and flourishing?
The time for collaboration is now: Strengthening Farmer Support Systems through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Systemic Change
Launching the Farmer Support Toolkit, a guidance note to improve the lives of commodity producers and their communities while protecting important vulnerable ecosystems.
COVID-19 pandemic adds to drought and pricing concerns in the Paraguayan Chaco
For regions already dealing with negative trends in global climate and global trade, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new pressures on top of drought and low prices.
How can companies and governments collaborate better for sustainable agricultural production?
Value Beyond Value Chains: Guidance Note for the Private [...]
Speech: Indonesia’s Deputy Minister for Food & Agriculture on the importance of ‘good growth’
Today we discussed and saw how other countries, developing countries, are able to grow their economies and establish good systems that can bring two interests together.
Panel Discussion: Catalysing Systemic Change in Agriculture Commodities
Achieving systemic, sectorial transformation in beef, palm oil and soy will require integrated action on multiple levels. What can help to deliver this sectorial transformation and what may get in the way?
Video: The Launch of the Good Growth Partnership Launch
Every now and then, a consortium of actors becomes a touchstone in a community. Our hope is that this Partnership could indeed be the touchstone that so many are looking for.
Panel Discussion: How to balance social, economic and environmental priorities
The pursuit of social and economic development is a vital priority for governments as they seek to reduce poverty and enhance the quality of life for their citizens. How do we manage situations in the development of the beef, palm oil and soy sectors where these objectives may come into tension with the needs of environmental conservation?
Video: Achim Steiner at launch of the Good Growth Partnership
Agriculture in the 21st century is fundamental, it’s foundational to our very existence, and ironically it has also become one of the greatest threats to a sustainable future.
CEO of the Global Environment Facility, Naoko Ishii, addresses launch event
In GEF’s view, business as usual conservation doesn’t work anymore. We need to depart from that thinking
[The GEF] How finance can reduce deforestation
Paul Hartman acknowledges in this blog the connection between agriculture and tropical deforestation and the key role of the financial sector in removing deforestation from commodity supply chains.
Climate change: could sustainable agriculture be the silver bullet we are looking for?
When we, the global community, are confronted with mounting and seemingly overwhelming challenges, it’s often difficult to know what to tackle first.
Liberia agriculture ministry launches new program to tackle deforestation
The Ministry of Agriculture, with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and Conservation International (CI) officially launched the Good Growth Partnership (GGP) in Liberia.
[The Guardian] Companies’ ‘zero deforestation’ pledges: everything you need to know
The UN has just launched the Good Growth Partnership, a four-year project led by the UNDP’s Green Commodities Programme aiming to transform the soy, beef and palm oil supply chains to meet SDG goals around poverty alleviation and tropical deforestation reduction.
[La Nacion] ‘Para alimentar al país, alimenten al bosque,’ nativo paraguayo en la ONU
Paraguay participa del lanzamiento de la Alianza para el Crecimiento Sólido del Programa de Green Comodities del Programa de las Naciones Unidas.
[Jakarta Post] UNDP launches program to improve sustainability of palm oil production
The UN has just launched the Good Growth Partnership, a four-year project led by the UNDP’s Green Commodities Programme aiming to transform the soy, beef and palm oil supply chains to meet SDG goals around poverty alleviation and tropical deforestation reduction.