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Tania Kahlon Marketing and Communications Officer, CRB The list of daily consumables for many of us includes items like biscuits, chips, chocolates, soap, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. All of these items use one common ingredient—palm oil or its derivatives or its fractions. Palm oil is well established as an essential and ubiquitous ingredient in many FMCG […]

Manufacturing as a service (MaaS) is an old wine in a new bottle. It is an industrial paradigm where manufacturing activities areoutsourced by clients (usually equipment or product brands, or manufacturers looking for parts) to “service providers” according to available slots and machinery, all connected on a digital interface. This not only saves time and

The Circular Economy (CE) approach is one that is being adopted across the world due to many advantages associated with it. However, for the sake of this article, which considers the agricultural value chain; one of the major motivations behind adopting a CE approach is resource efficiency. For example, the Union Government is exploring how

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 are 17 thematic areas that outline a roadmap for sustainable development until 2030. The SDGs recognize that action in one area will affect outcomes in others, and that development must look at balancing social, economic and environmental sustainability. The impact of these goals largely depends on the

For long, the idea that climate change has any direct or indirect impact on human rights seemed unbelievable. There was very little that was said about the relationship of business and human rights with the environment, much less with respect to climate change. While international agencies and national governments have acknowledged that climate change and

Feminization of the workforce accompanied by increasing informalisation is an emerging phenomenon across Indian industries- from garment to electronics to agriculture. Faced with stiff global competition, ensuring minimal rights and protection of these women workers (such as job security, maternity leave, on-site childcare provisions, etc) therefore remains highly ‘unlikely’. The pandemic has amplified these challenges,

The big push towards clean mobility, particularly e-mobility, is finally here. Over the past five years, several state governments as well the Central Government have been actively promoting higher adoption of electric vehicles as well as cleaner fuels such as CNG. While CNG-run buses and taxis have been in service for quite a few years,

Contrary to a recent saying, “Coronavirus impacts everyone equally, doesn’t discriminate between the rich and the poor”, the poor in India – especially the urban poor has been most adversely affected and are battling for survival. Ever since the lockdown hit on 25th March 2020 in India, millions have lost their jobs—unemployment rate stood at

Background: Environmental accounting or green accounting is a new branch of accounting that aims at accounting for the Environment and its well-being. The adoption of Green accounting depicts the commitment an enterprise/organization has towards the environment. It deals with 3 important factors: people, profitability and the planet and also deals with the costs and the

The government is an important stakeholder in the agricultural sector in India due to the policy support it provides. It is a key driver of policies that envision policy change on a thematic basis ranging from increasing incomes of farmers to increasing in the country’s exports. This article aims to capture a brief snapshot of