Tagged with "Procurement"

Real talk: prices and profits for all businesses

For all types of businesses, securing buyers that provide sufficient value to stay in business and manage risks is essential. Smallholder farmers are no different. Sourcing from smallholder farmers is…

Sourcing decisions on price should be a function of value and risk 

There is a clear incentive for businesses dependent on smallholder farmer production to ensure smallholders have a business case for investing in farm production. An obvious entry point is the…

Rewriting the Sustainability Playbook to Integrate Social and Environmental Agendas

Our planetary systems are in crisis. From climate change and biodiversity loss to poverty and inequality, transformative action is needed urgently on pervasive environmental and social issues. These are areas…

Rewriting the Sustainability Playbook to Integrate Social and Environmental Agendas

Explore how Mars and IDH partnered with Forum for the Future to commission research that explores how companies can better integrate environmental and social agendas.

The Integrated Business Agenda

Procurement: The Key to Supply Chain Resiliency

This opinion piece was first published in Supply Chain Management Review Magazine. By Ilaria Ida Walton (Mars), Iris van der Velden (IDH) and…

Procurement: 1st steppingstone to integrated sustainability?

This op-ed first appeared in Procurement Magazine.   Integrating procurement with sustainability can accelerate progress towards a more holistic business approach Imagine you invite a new…