Author: Andrea Viviers
Post type: News Update

Deze tekst verscheen op de P+ website.  P+ is een tonaangevend multimedium voor de praktijk van maatschappelijk verantwoord ondernemen (MVO) in Nederland Hoe de markt te verduurzamen?Zoals een baby niet in een paar dagen opgroeit tot volwassene, zo kost ook het verduurzamen van bedrijven […]

Author: Tessa van der Meiden
Post type: Career update

In a time where we are confronted with increasingly complex and global sustainability challenges, the question is not whether we will deal with them, the question is how. At NewForesight we turn tough sustainability challenges into shared opportunities. Since 2008 we have been supporting the world’s leading multinationals, multi-stakeholder platforms, governments, standard setting organizations, donors and NGOs in a wide range of agro-commodity sectors to turn vision into real-world and lasting impact. You can find a selection of our clients and example projects here.

Author: Eva Schouten
Post type: Blog

As a professional in the field of sustainability, measuring performance is all around you and with the ‘beyond certification’ debate in full swing, reporting on output level is no longer enough. More than ever, performance measurement is considered a driver for change that can serve as a tool to guide decision-making and help organizations achieve their goals in sustainability more efficiently and effectively. As mentioned in our recent blog on the Key Elements of Sustainable Market Transformation, performance measurement should be part of a holistic approach, and should itself be subject to continuous improvement. But how can you effectively integrate this in your organization?

Author: William Saab
Post type: Webinar

The cocoa sector will not be able to know whether its efforts are sufficient until we understand the size of the problems and measure and improve our approaches. There is a positive trend in research being used more consistently, and in some cases being made publicly available. Much of the available information has been collected by NGOs and development organizations, while also many major companies collect comprehensive sets of data. But how can we combine data and insights to measure progress? And in what ways can we make sure data is used in an effective way? In this 90 minutes webinar, we sort the hype from the hope on data in cocoa.

Author: Guus ter Haar
Post type: Webinar

Sustainable production and long-term positive impact on structural issues such as deforestation and HCV protection can be meaningfully achieved when approaches move beyond the level of individual producers and projects, and take on a more integrated and scalable scope. To this end, “Landscape approaches” have gained prominence, and we are seeing the first initiatives where partnership and collaboration are starting to facilitate the move towards sustainable agricultural production at a landscape scale.

Author: Eva Schouten
Post type: News Update

Three high-potential changemakers in the agri-food sector visited our office today to share some thoughts with our CEO and Founder, Lucas Simons. A great learning experience! For starters, these changemakers are not new to the world of sustainability. Daniela Rojas (Sustainable Business Advisor at Nature’s […]

Author: Lucas Simons
Post type: News Update

Picture by ICCO How to engage 1500 cocoa stakeholders from over 60 countries all with different viewpoints and interests and still create a common vision and agenda that accelerates action? This was the challenge we were faced with in supporting the facilitation of […]

Author: Julie Phillips
Post type: News Update

Are you looking for a summer project? Do you have the analytical skills to crunch information into easy to read insights and do you have the ability to easily adopt conceptual frameworks in your writing? Are you that logistical hero that easily leads the coordination in a fast-paced project? Then you should join us as a strategic content contributor to an exciting new publication.

Author: Naritalia Panjaitan
Post type: Career update

What does it mean to be a sustainability consultant? What do these people do in their daily job? Many graduates and young professionals are driven to work on sustainability often find themselves asking these questions. NewForesight offered 23 high-potential young professionals a chance […]

Author: William Saab
Post type: Article

Written by: William Saab (Senior Consultant), supported by Eva Schouten (Analyst).  Also posted on LinkedIn. Reflecting on the 4th World Cocoa Conference in Berlin The global cocoa sector agrees that there is a need for a more sustainable sector and that the sector faces critical and complex […]