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Supporting Pesticide-free Cotton Farms that Contribute to Greener Agriculture and a Better Environment

Tsubame Towel Corporation is encouraging the spread of environmentally friendly organic cotton and also supporting the work of organic farmers in India.

Hokkaido Fuyumizu-tambo (Winter-flooded Rice Paddies) Project

This project has established a wet-paddy winter approach for Hokkaido and is a multifaceted endeavor with myriad benefits, among them establishing and spreading farming rice paddies without the use of pesticides or chemical fertilizers. This has contributed to the conservation of biodiversity and the production of rice that is both safe and has added value. In addition, it has also helped environmental education and the development of local communities.

The Road to Kamaka: struggles of poverty and desertification

Case prepared by Joseph EL-KHOURY & Professor Luciano BARIN-CRUZ. The team participated in several cultural workshops that introduced them to aspects of Malian culture, such as gender dynamics, values, customs, and important health precautions. Halfway through their retreat, the team was given specific tasks that they would be responsible for executing in Kamaka.

Biodiversity monitoring

Nestlé is a multinational packaged foods company founded in 1922 and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, with a market capitalization of over $93 billion Canadian. It employs approximately 3,500 people in Canada who work in the company’s more than 20 facilities, including manufacturing, sales, and distribution centers. Nestlé Waters Canada is Canada’s largest manufacturer and distributor of bottled water and operates 2 bottling plants across Canada. Other than bottled water, Nestlé product lines include coffee, juice, ice cream, baby food/formula, healthcare nutrition, pet care, confectionery and pharmaceuticals.

Everyday Wildlife Champions

Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) is a Fortune 500 multinational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Four billion times a day, P&G brands touch the lives of people around the world. P&G markets approximately 300 brands of consumer products in roughly 180 countries. It is a global company that employs approximately 135,000 people in 80 countries with more than 2,000 in Canada. P&G is a leading consumer packaged goods company with roughly $80 billion in annual global sales of products ranging from beauty and grooming, health and well being to household care under brand names such as Gillette®, Crest® and Dawn®. P&G is credited with many business innovations including brand management and the soap opera.

Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST)

http://www.fastinternational.org/

FAST is an internationally focused, member driven, non-profit association representing financial institutions and producers dedicated to the sustainable production and trade of products.

The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN)

http://sanstandards.org/sitio/sections/display/2

The SAN promotes efficient and productive agriculture, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable community development by creating social and environmental standards. Additionally, it promotes best practices for the agricultural value chain, providing incentives to producers so that they adhere to the standards while motivating companies and consumers to support sustainability.

UTZ Certified

http://www.utzcertified.org/index.php

UTZ CERTIFIED is one of the largest sustainable agriculture supply chain programs for coffee, cocoa and tea in the world: one-third of all coffee that is sustainably traded worldwide is certified by UTZ.

Measuring Up: Synchronizing Biodiversity Measurement Systems for Markets and Other Incentive Programs

http://willamettepartnership.org/measuring-up

Emerging environmental markets, in tandem with existing incentive programs, have the potential to make effective contributions to conservation, but little is known about how these programs quantify biodiversity. This report, prepared for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Environmental Markets, focuses on two areas of action that could help improve effective investments for biodiversity:

1. Standardizing systems for measuring the outcomes of current incentive programs, and
2. Providing options for how federal agencies and others might support biodiversity incentives, particularly markets for biodiversity.

Willamette Partnership: Protocols, Tools and Templates

http://willamettepartnership.org/tools-templates

The Willamette Partnership is a diverse coalition of conservation, city, business, farm, and science leaders in the Willamette River basin who are working to shift the way people think about, value, manage, and regulate the environment.  The standard credit issuance process, rules, and guidelines for generating credits and debits are described in protocol documents. Through the Counting on the Environment stakeholder process, the Willamette Partnership is continuing to develop protocols for more holistic ecosystem accounting.  Currently, protocols are under development for additional ecosystem currencies, voluntary tracking and accounting, and batch verification for small projects. Policy frameworks, permits, contracts, and forms used for creating, buying and selling conservation outcomes as offset credits in the Willamette can be used as templates for others designing ecosystem markets.  A lot of new information was developed during the course of developing an ecosystem credit accounting system.  To make participation in markets  easier, standard templates for various contractual agreements, certificates, protocols, and standards have been developed.