Key messages
- With growing concern over climate, biodiversity and food crises, there is a proliferation of standards, guidelines and principles (simplified here as “standards and guidelines” or just “standards”) aimed at addressing environmental, social, governance and broader societal challenges (the “pillars” of transformative change).
- Across these challenges, different standards and guidelines have multiple priorities and varying concepts of what each pillar encompasses.
- Few initiatives acknowledge or incorporate all four pillars, thereby increasing the potential risk of harm by neglecting trade-offs and overlooking the need for understanding and promoting systemic change.
- Although it is not possible for every standard to “do everything”, investors should identify, assess and plan for the potential consequences and trade-offs; otherwise, “green” projects could impoverish smallholders, and livelihood projects could ignore sustainability, with long-term consequences for both.
- Transformative change in food systems requires investor models that ensure a positive impact, where environmental stewardship, social inclusion, governance and societal issues become part of how investors do business.
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor-icraf/009112Dimensiones Recuento de citas:
Año de publicación
2024
Autores
Luttrell, C.; Larson, A.M.; Schoneveld, G.C.; Kalman, R.; Gallagher, E.J.
Idioma
English
Palabras clave
land management, investment, governance, land tenure, environmental impact, food systems, business models
