Organization: Wageningen University
Registration deadline: 17 Oct 2016
Starting date: 28 Nov 2016
Ending date: 09 Dec 2016
Threats and opportunities challenge businesses to re-think the status quo of their operations: rising demand for agrifood products, combined with strains on water, land, and labour, stress the growing urgency of securing supply. As the world witnesses a shifting business landscape, old, unresolved problems scream out for attention.
Optimising agrifood supply chains to deliver business and social value
Business as “unusual”
Poverty remains a devastating, cyclical trap for millions, with rural populations adversely affected. Food security is still an elusive goal for over 1 billion of the Earth’s inhabitants. Further, events like Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution assert once more how important accessible, affordable food is for stability and peace. To face globally pressing issues it is critical that the private sector play a meaningful role.
However merging business and social objectives requires ambition, strength of will, and a dedication to “business as unusual”. This course will help you understand the fundamentals of inclusive agribusiness, how you can get started, and strategies to achieve success.
Sustainable solutions and inclusiveness business models
Agribusiness intersects a myriad of humanity’s greatest challenges: only by cultivating sustainable systems for its actors can lasting solutions be realized.
However, even large global companies with strong social objectives, such as Unilever and Mars, are struggling to make their way of working more inclusive. What about SMEs, lacking the capital, in-house capacities and networks of
a global player; how can they combine better business with greater impact?
What you will gain from this course
During three cycles of concept-learning and applications to your own and other cases, you will be able to:
- Recall definitions of inclusive business models
- Explain the theory behind evaluations of inclusive business models (trading relationship) in supply chains
- Develop strategies to set up inclusive supply chains or enhance inclusiveness in existing supply chains
- Establish effective and efficient monitoring systems to sustainably measure success
Target audience
This course is intended for those working with smallholders in agricultural supply chains seeking to create and/or support inclusive businesses. We are targeting people who can directly apply what they have learnt in their professional situation. Proficiency in English is required
How to register:
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