A framework for sustainability innovation in agri-business The corporate implementation of the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) A framework for sustainability 2 innovation in agri-business Content Authors Foreword 3 Earth Security Group are strategic advisors helping companies, investors Executive Summary 4 and governments to engage with sustainability issues that are shaping 1 Introduction 6 their markets, aligning business growth Sustainability drivers of with sustainable development goals. agri-business innovation
[email protected] 2 The Framework 8 earthsecuritygroup.com The 10 Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI) and the SDGs 3 Recommendations 30 The corporate implementation of CFS-RAI and SDGs Acknowledgements 32 Endnotes 33 Copyright © Earth Security Group 2018 Disclaimer The views and opinions expressed in this report are solely those of Earth Security Group. Note All currency $ refers to US dollars. Strategic Partners Funding Partner A framework for sustainability 3 innovation in agri-business Foreword Investing in agriculture is widely The formation of the Global Agri- recognised as one of the most effective business Alliance (GAA), a CEO-led ways to alleviate poverty, improve platform to collaborate on the sector’s food security and reduce hunger global challenges and opportunities and malnutrition. Paradoxically, both for sustainable development impact, overseas development aid and domestic and the context of the World Business investment in agriculture have been Council for Sustainable Development declining since the 1990s. The total share (WBCSD)’s broader work facilitating the of aid to agriculture from the OECD has business collaborations on food systems, fallen from nearly 20% in the mid 1980s represent opportunities to achieve and to a mere 7% in 2015 and has remained operationalise greater strategic thinking at this level since.