IISD at the Responsible Business Forum on Food & Agriculture 2019
The International Institute for Sustainable Development will be in Bangkok, Thailand, from March 25 to 27, 2019, for the Responsible Business Forum on Food & Agriculture (RBF), which has as its 2019 theme: Innovation in Value Chains for Food and Nutrition Security.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development will be in Bangkok, Thailand, from March 25 to 27, 2019, for the Responsible Business Forum on Food & Agriculture (RBF), which has as its 2019 theme: Innovation in Value Chains for Food and Nutrition Security.
IISD, together with Grow Asia, will be presenting the ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry. These guidelines were adopted by ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) in October 2018.
The ASEAN Guidelines on Promoting Responsible Investment in Food, Agriculture and Forestry were developed through an inclusive, multistakeholder process with support from the ASEAN Secretariat, Grow Asia, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and a World Bank trust fund.
The launch at RBF of the ASEAN guidelines will take place during the morning of March 27 from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. local time. More details are available at the RBF website.
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