November 2014 – Food, Farming and Finance

US SIF Foundation highlights investment options to improve economic opportunities for women Mars, Itau Unibanco, Glanbia Ingredients Ireland Ltd, PureCircle, Yes Bank and B&Q are among the 14 winners at this year’s Responsible Business Awards On Monday, 29th September 2014, nearly 200 of the world\’s leading responsible business experts gathered at Ethical Corporation\’s Fifth Annual […]

>> Back to November 2014 Issue US SIF Foundation highlights investment options to improve economic opportunities for women   The US SIF Foundation announced in early October that it has published a new guide for investors seeking to help women achieve parity with men on a number of socioeconomic measures, ranging from access to capital

>> Back to November 2014 Issue   Portfolio 21 has many criteria that we use in our research effort to find the companies that are global leaders in environmental, social, and governance performance. Periodically, we conduct in-depth topical research to test and update broad sets of our criteria. Portfolio 21 has always had a policy

>> Back to November 2014 Issue   Rockcastle County, KY – Iroquois Valley Farms, LLC, a food and farmland Company investing in organic and local agriculture, has purchased its first Kentucky farm. That makes Kentucky the sixth state in which the Company owns farms. Healing Ground Farm is 120 acres of pasture and tillable fields

>> Back to November 2014 Issue   With the purchase of a 200 acre Maine organic dairy farm, Iroquois Valley Farms, a socially responsible food and farmland company, jumpstarted organic yogurt leader Stonyfield’s initiative to purchase milk directly from local farmers. It started in late 2013 when Stonyfield introduced Iroquois Valley Farms to Caleb Harris,

>> Back to November 2014 Issue Article by Daniel Fireside, Capital Coordinator, Equal Exchange For hundreds of years, Coffee was grown “organically,” without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides, creating a rich and biodiverse ecosystem. A few decades ago, this changed. Synthetic inputs led to booming production, but the cost to the soil, water, and a

>> Back to November 2014 Issue by Theodosia Hamilton Ferguson, Founder, Vital Systems I am actively concerned that industrial agriculture is dependent on fossil fuels, requires heavy natural resource inputs, drives international land grabs and increases the disparity of healthand income and I am sharing actions I have taken to inspire you to action. There

Back to November 2014 Issue By Rob Dietz, Special Project Manager and Erin Roach, Vice President, Investor Relations & Marketing, Farmland LP As the rising sun takes the chill off an early autumn morning, the new daylight illuminates the fields of two Oregon farms. A quick glance at each farm reveals clear differences. Several hundred

Back to November 2014 Issue By Rebecca Baran-Rees MoGro Project Director at the Santa Fe Community Foundation The challenge of local and healthy food access is a complex puzzle being addressed across the country, from pre-boxed home delivery companies like Good Eggs, to mobile farmers’ markets and healthy produce vans. In rural America, however, few