The social enterprise that she set up, Growing Communities, specialises in salads and leafy greens because salad leaves are: highly perishable thus should be as local as possible to preserve micronutrients; they are often air freighted and sprayed with chemicals; they are highly labour intensive and require hand labour; and they have a high value thus they help to
achieve economic viability for the grower.
To succeed today, communities and businesses must shift their focus to a triple bottom line approach — they need to
achieve economic viability while balancing social needs and environmental impacts.
Not exact matches
Either way,
achieving these environmental and social goals is the key to industry wide
economic viability.»