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Community health and achieving UN SDGs via the development of a circular economy

Explore the role of circular economy in the organic agriculture industry to achieve the UN SDGs. Discover how businesses can create value while meeting the needs of clients. Learn about the benefits of a circular economy for society, the environment, and the economy.

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Community health and achieving UN SDGs via the development of a circular economy

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  1. Community health and achieving UN SDGs via the development of a circular economy within the organic agriculture industry Urban October: 2018 Annual Session of Global Forum on Human Settlements Circular Economy By Spencer Leung

  2. UN SDGs recap

  3. Objective of business • Make profit • Earn money by creating values along the way • Every business needs to meet the needs of its clients • companies achieve this objective by creating useful products, providing services that generate savings for customers or by offering products or services that bring pleasure or ease pain.

  4. Essence of a strong economy • “An economy is the system according to which the money, industry, and trade of a country or region are organized.”+ • Rely on good relationship between • Society/People • Business/Private Sector • Government/Public Sector + Collins Dictionary

  5. Linear vs Circular Economy Grave yard

  6. Conventional Farming – Linear Economy $$$ Synthetic Farm inputs Dump Landfill Harvest Food Waste Nutrition extraction Plant grow Consumed

  7. Organic Agriculture– Circular Process "Organic Agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects…”+ + IFOAM Definition of organic agriculture

  8. System Thinking – The Sustainability Compass+ + Part of the AtKisson "Accelerator" suite of sustainability tools (http://atkisson.com)

  9. 3-Dimensional Spherical Circular Movementof a socially inclusive organic industry Working with nature on food production Nature Caring Well- being Facilitate human Interaction & collaboration Economy Social Aspect Sustainable Econ. Dev., job creation, 3Rs Communities & societies Engagement (stakeholders)

  10. Nature - Circular Production Process in OA“Push – Pull” for Stemborer and Striga Control

  11. Economy - Return Food Nutrition Back to the soil(zero-waste program)

  12. Society-Working with social enterprises for product/packaging design and knowledge sharing Sustainable rice straw paper for packaging Zero-baht Shop

  13. Wellbeing = Inner Peace

  14. Importance of a Circular Economy- water management

  15. Drought - worldwide https://watchers.news/category/drought/

  16. Without a 3D perspective, all inclusive circular economy • How we can achieve sustainable economic development? • How can we achieve our Sustainable Development Goals? • How can peace be sustainable? Good Read: https://www.unescap.org/blog/circular-economy-making-sustainability-part-the-solution-asia-pacific

  17. Empowering Regenerative Agriculture + Peace Spencer Leung m: +66 89 685 2808 e: spencer@goorganics.org w: www.goorganics.org l: https://th.linkedin.com/in/goorganics

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