10/18/2022 - 10:00

Agriculture Program: Governance & Sustainability Risks in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector

This webinar addressed the key corporate governance risks arising from concentrated ownership structures prevalent in SE Asia that are maintained via complex control-enhancing mechanisms, such as the use of pyramid structures, different share classes and crosshholdings.

05/13/2022 - 10:00

Agriculture Program : Palm Oil’s Global Sustainability Issues and Why They Matter for Investors

EMIA’s Agriculture Program hosted senior members of the Chain Reaction Research team to discuss the palm oil sector’s sustainability trends, achievements, and challenges in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The speakers were 

02/25/2022 - 10:00

Agriculture Program : Barriers to Scaling Up New Protein Technologies

EMIA hosted Professor Evan Fraser, Director, Arrell Food Institute at Canada’s University of Guelph to discuss “Barriers to Scaling Up New Protein Technologies.”

01/28/2022 - 10:00

Agriculture Program : Livestock Production and Animal Waste Pollution Management

EMIA hosted Maria Montosa, ESG analyst, FAIRR Initiative and Max Boucher, Senior Manager, Research and Engagement, FAIRR Initiative to discuss how protein companies’ management of animal waste has significant implications for human health, climate change, and bio

09/17/2021 - 10:00

Agriculture Program : Deforestation in the Gran Chaco

This event represents the Agriculture Program’s first webinar on agriculture driven deforestation in the Gran Chaco ecoregion. The Gran Chaco is the second largest forested ecoregion in South America after the Amazon and spans four countries (Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil).

07/05/2021 - 03:16

Agriculture Program: Call with Amaggi

The Agriculture Program hosted Juliana de Lavor Lopes, Sustainability, Communications and Compliance Director of Amaggi.  Amaggi is one of the largest agribusiness companies in Brazil, with a regionally integrated footprint and leading position in the production, origination, and

05/14/2021 - 09:00

Agriculture Program: Water Risks in Food Production

The EMIA Agriculture Program hosted Sara Walker, Senior Manager, Water Quality and Agriculture and Colin Strong, Research Associate, Corporate Water Stewardship of the World Resource Institute.  Sara and Colin presented on types of water risks facing the agricult

02/11/2021 - 10:00

Agriculture Program : Environmental Policy Shifts in Brazil

The EMIA Agriculture Program and the Rainforest Foundation Norway hosted a webinar on Environmental Policy Shifts in Brazil.

01/29/2021 - 09:00

Agriculture Program : Protein Alternatives

EMIA hosted Caroline Bushnell, Felipe Krelling and Doris Lee of the Good Food Institute for our first webinar on protein alternatives.