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  • Seeds of Prosperity

     The Seeds of Prosperity programme aims, through commodity supply chains, to improve tea sector workers’ diets and hygiene practices. A successful pilot has reached 2,600 farmers…

    Seeds of Prosperity
  • Seeds of Prosperity Programme

    GAIN, Unilever, and IDH aim to improve the nutrition and health of tea farmers, workers and their families in the supply chains through the Seeds of Prosperity programme.

    Seeds of Prosperity Programme
  • KTDA, IDH and Unilever improve tea farmers livelihoods at scale

    Over 85,000 farmers have been trained on sustainable agricultural practices and Rainforest Alliance certification through Farmer Field Schools (FFS), including over 45,000 women (53%). Resulting in income diversification, higher yields…

    KTDA, IDH and Unilever improve tea farmers livelihoods at scale
  • Dutch ambassador visits the South West Mau Landscape

    The ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Kenya, HE Amb. Frans Makken, visited IDH’s South West Mau Forest landscape program area on 15 November. The visit, which included…

    Dutch ambassador visits the South West Mau Landscape
  • Mara Farming Service Delivery Model Impact

    IDH has been supporting Mara Farming by implementing a Service Delivery Model, and analyzing the impact of including smallholders in their supply chain. IDH has also co-funded the Service…

    Mara Farming Service Delivery Model Impact
  • Living Wage project

    Working on the Living Wage project in East Africa, Hivos and their partners Fair Trade and FFP have conducted a wage structure analysis and wage benchmark for both Ethiopia and Kenya. The initial outcome of the studies were…

    Living Wage project
  • 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…

    Cashew projects
  • Training smallholder tea farmers

    Farmer Field Schools (FFS) help farmers bridge their knowledge gap. Farmers who attended an FFS in the past adopted better practices, and improved the quality of their yield. This resulted…

    Training smallholder tea farmers
  • Kenya Tea Program

    A public-private partnership that aims to transform the Kenyan tea sector through training and certification of 560.000 KTDA smallholder tea farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices.

    Kenya Tea Program
  • FSI present at IFTEX in Kenya

    At the 5th edition of IFTEX, the International Floriculture Trade Expo in Nairobi Kenya, FSI members based in East Africa met and discussed the new round of projects with those…

    FSI present at IFTEX in Kenya