How does Ecoagriculture Partners engage the private sector?
We recognize that corporate actors are influential players with profound impacts on ecosystems, agricultural production, and rural livelihoods. For EP’s goals to be met at a globally meaningful scale, there will need to be dramatic changes in the thinking and activities of corporate and other private sector actors. All stakeholders in a landscape must be involved in planning and negotiations to achieve ecoagriculture’s goals. New collaborative partnerships can enhance the corporate sector’s desire to adopt and implement ecoagriculture strategies. Thus, Ecoagriculture Partners actively seeks to work not only with community, farming, and conservation leaders, but also with ecoagriculture innovators within agribusiness and the food industry. EP’s work with specific businesses to strengthen ecoagriculture activities is not an endorsement of their other activities. This principle holds in our work with specific government agencies, NGOs, and others as well.
We recognize that corporate actors are influential players with profound impacts on ecosystems, agricultural production, and rural livelihoods. For EcoAgriculture Partners’ goals to be met at a globally meaningful scale, there will need to be dramatic changes in the thinking and activities of corporate and other private sector actors. All stakeholders in a landscape must be involved in planning and negotiations to achieve ecoagriculture’s goals. New collaborative partnerships can enhance the corporate sector’s desire to adopt and implement ecoagriculture strategies. Thus, EcoAgriculture Partners actively seeks to work not only with community, farming, and conservation leaders, but also with ecoagriculture innovators within agribusiness and the food industry. EcoAgriculture Partners’ work with specific businesses to strengthen ecoagriculture activities is not an endorsement of their other activities. This principle holds in our work with specific government agencies, NGOs, and others as
