The social and Environmental Value of CSR Investments in Agriculture Including the Approach and Value of Science Backed Solutions

Kane-Potaka, J and Wani, S P and Pillai, L R (2018) The social and Environmental Value of CSR Investments in Agriculture Including the Approach and Value of Science Backed Solutions. In: Workshop on CSR for Agricultural Development, November 19-20, 2018, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad.

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Abstract

CSR investments on agriculture are significantly under-represented. Yet these investments are key to ensuring food security, overcoming hunger and protecting the environment. Rural communities also have the highest levels of poverty and malnutrition. Bringing prosperity and sustainability to rural areas hinges on making agriculture profitable. Improved livelihoods in rural areas have shown to lead to increased spending on education and health care, connecting agricultural development with a more holistic solution. The approach to agricultural development needs to be community driven, tackling initially the community's top priorities and identifying the low hanging fruit to achieve early impacts. These efforts will build trust in the community which can then be built on with more interventions across the whole agriculture value chain. Interventions need to be science-backed. In developing these solutions, sustainable models that are market-driven and valued are important. Cross cutting to the whole approach is the inclusiveness, engaging the required partners, communications and the monitoring and evaluation.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	CSR, Agricultural Development, CSR investments, agriculture
Subjects:	Others > Agriculture Others > Corporate Social Responsibility
Depositing User:	Mr Ramesh K
Date Deposited:	30 Jul 2019 09:55
Last Modified:	30 Jul 2019 09:55
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11201
Acknowledgement:	UNSPECIFIED
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