sustainability – Primal Group

Shaping Sustainable Food Systems for Future Generations

Agriculture has always strived to achieve better, more robust yields. Over the centuries, mankind has made significant progress in this field, facing global hunger through new crop varieties, synthetic pesticides for crop protection and synthetic fertilizers to artificially increase yields. Despite the incredible progress humanity has made in the realm of agriculture, there remain stark truths that demand our attention. So what are the main issues we are facing in securing our global food supply and which technologies will enable us to achieve the United Nations Social Development Goal of eradicating hunger by 2030 while managing resources more efficiently and effectively?…

Ours is the Era of the Planetary Household

Throughout the 20^th century, the global economic system has prioritized one performance indicator above all else – growth in gross domestic product. In recent decades that focus has propelled the global economy to almost unimaginable heights, pushing inequality to unprecedented levels and intensifying the pressure placed on the world’s most essential resources. The current system, characterized by excessive resource extraction and consumption supported by years of quantitative easing and highly leveraged balanced sheets, risks both economic and ecological collapse. The make, use and lose philosophy for human development and prosperity is clearly unsustainable and demands a fresh strategy that meets the needs of mankind within the means of Planet Earth.…

Our Commitment to the UN Global Compact

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As we draw the calendar year to a close, we are delighted to share with you how we, as approved and active participants of the United Nations Global Compact alliance, have maintained our commitment to the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative and applied their principles in very tangible ways across our day to day business.

As part of our commitment, we submit an annual report on what we are doing that illustrates our activity in applying these principles, which we detail below:

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Letter of Continued Support from CEO, Anthony J.…

Secrets of the Exponential

Evolve or die. Certainly a harsh way to perceive the world around us but make no mistake this maxim is more appropriate today than ever before. With the relentless rise of populations, the rapid degradation of our environment and an unprecedented depletion of our most vital resources, such driving pressures are testing the frontiers of mankind and catalyzing innovation in the very way we live and do business.

A new commercial reality is emerging. In order to succeed, create true value and build the new world order in this new economic age we must achieve exponential progress in four key domains – sustainability, efficiency, integrated information systems as well as circular production and consumption.…