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Soy
‘Only through multistakeholder initiatives you get credibility, a valid process and the buy-in from the entire sector’
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Tea
‘It became increasingly clear that changes in society meant we needed to explain how we make tea.’
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Sustainable Trade
‘The need for learning is eminent. What should we aim for in certification? We can learn from cocoa and coffee.’
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Cotton
‘To drive changes in the cotton fields we have to work in partnership with our value chain’
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Sustainable Trade
‘IDH is providing leadership on taking the sector approach, bringing the companies together, in order to bring them down to the country level’
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Cocoa
‘We are willing to work together with other companies and public partners to deliver sustainability’
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Aquaculture
‘We expect the ASC label we are building with IDH and WWF, will replace all other farmed fish labels’
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Soy
‘CPOs can deliver sustainability by creating shared value through innovation: finding the sweet spot. ’
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Aquaculture
‘Multinationals start to see that they must incorporate the integrated costs on environment and people. Also for pure economical reasons.’
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Sustainable Trade
‘Unilever’s overall goal in the area of agricultural sourcing is to source 100% of its agricultural products sustainably by 2020’
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Sustainable Trade
‘To feed 9 billion people in 2050, business models have to change. That requires close cooperation with all our partners.’
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Tea
‘In the roll-out of our Farmer Field Schools we cooperate with companies, government officials, NGOs and IDH’
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Cocoa
‘Sustainability is not only important for Western companies. Also for our country because it brings more value to our farmers.’
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Sustainable Trade
‘ We believe that through creating shared value, we create wealth for us and at the same time the farmer gets paid higher value for its output’
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Sustainable Trade
‘We need to be able to manage scarcity of products, sustainability issues and price pressure from consumers all at once’
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Sustainable Trade
‘We made hard commitments we will track over time. And answer the question: how to drive this through the supply chain.’
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Coffee
‘Sustainability will become profitable as precision agriculture will increase quality and quantity of yields.’
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Cotton
‘We must increase agricultural productivity by 70%. There is not much more arable land. Access to finance is key to increase efficiency. ’
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Sustainable Trade
‘We are fully integrated from farm gate to the brand, we invest to provide resources for our whole supply chain’
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Cocoa
‘The multistakeholder approach of IDH with NGO's and governments is essential. We can not do it alone ’
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Tropical Timber
‘FSC wood brought us access to new markets and proved to be profitable ’
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Soy
‘IDH makes sure we combine our efforts and knowledge in sustainability. Not only in soy but in many sectors.’
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Cocoa
‘IDH is very welcome, because they fulfill the gap by bringing private and public sector together’
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Sustainable Trade
‘Agriculture is the biggest threat to conservation on the planet today, more than any other human activity’
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Aquaculture
‘We must double production and half our footprint. Reduce depency on fish meal and reduce use of antibiotics are key to our challenge.’
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Sustainable Trade
‘Companies can create economical growth in developing countries with a strong focus on sustainability.’
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IDH accelerates and up-scales sustainable trade by building impact oriented coalitions of front running multinationals, civil society organizations, governments and other stakeholders. Read more..
