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Living Wages in the Banana sector

Employment in the export sector promises a potential solution for poor working conditions and low wages. In many production countries, however, it is common that workers receive insufficient wages to…

Cashew farming in Africa – from backyard hobby to bankable business

SDM analytics help to increase bankability of cashew farmers in Africa. Over the past five years, IDH, in partnership with ComCashew, have supported the development of smallholder cashew farmers in…

12 cocoa companies commit to halting deforestation

On March 16 2017 the twelve largest global chocolate and cocoa companies committed to develop cooperative, multi-stakeholder frameworks to help address deforestation and forest degradation in their cocoa supply chains…

Huffington Post blog about Cocoa & Forest Initiative

IDH, the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and The Prince’s International Sustainability Unit (ISU) convened the Cocoa & Forest Initiative and launched it at a meeting hosted by HRH The Prince…

Cocoa & Forests Initiative

A common vision and joint framework of action in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana eliminating deforestation from the cocoa supply chain

Cashew projects

Rolling out traceability and targeted investment in farmer groups and at processor level IDH supports several projects with the leading cashew processors in West Africa (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin). The…

SDM Case Study: ECOM Cocoa, Ghana

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Sustainable Nuts Initiative

The Sustainable Nut Initiative aims to stimulate traceability and sustainability in the nut sector.

HPW Smallholder Project

HPW project – Ghana The HPW/IDH Smallholder project provides solutions to mitigate the pineapple scarcity and the mango and pineapple oversupply during peak seasons. Limited processing…

Juice, Purees & Concentrates