IDH and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development cooperate on water management
On January 21, 2016: Hoang Van Thang, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ted van der Put, IDH Program Director signed a cooperation agreement to improve water resource…
IDH and Environmental Protection Fund sign MoU to promote sustainable land and water management
On January 21, 2016, the Vice Director of Vietnam Environmental Protection Fund (VEPF) Ms. Duong Thi Phuong Anh and IDH Program Director, Ted van der Put signed a Memorandum of…
Pilot projects in development in various ISLA landscapes
The ISLA team is in the process of developing pilot projects and sending calls for proposals or developing projects with key stakeholders in the other landscapes. While the ISLA program…
Pilot projects in development in various ISLA landscapes
While the ISLA program in Kenya is already in the midst of implementing pilot projects such as tree planting with public and private sector partners, the ISLA team is in…
At the COP21 in Paris in early December, Pedro Taques the Mato Grosso governor, announced the state’s green growth strategy and plans to reduce 6 gigatons of CO2 emissions by…
At the COP21 in Paris in early December, Pedro Taques the Mato Grosso governor, announced the state’s green growth strategy and plans to reduce 6 gigatons of CO2 emissions by…
At the Indonesia Pavilion, the South Sumatra governor launched a Green Growth Action plan with immediate priorities – fire, peatland, poverty and planning. Together with IDH, the governor is…
European private sector forces join to ensure a fully sustainable palm oil supply chain in Europe by 2020. The commitment to support 100% sustainable Palm Oil was presented to the…
The Ministry of Development Cooperation and International Trade organized a one-day conference on aid and trade. The Dutch government chairs the EU in the coming six months and aid and…
Big solutions can be found in a little book released today at the Paris climate talks. The Little Sustainable Landscapes Book argues that sustainable management of landscapes is a local…
Over 300 organizations sign up for public-private cooperation plan in coffee
Addis Abeba, March 2016 – The first landmark of the newly formed Global Coffee Platform was today at the 4th World Coffee Conference: the launch of Vision 2020, a plan…
South Sumatran government and IDH sign Memorandum of Understanding
Today the South Sumatran Provincial governor Alex Noerdin and IDH director Joost Oorthuizen signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the IDH office in Utrecht. With the MoU in place, IDH…
A call to action to make coffee the first sustainable agricultural product in the world
Today, at the U.N. climate negotiations, Conservation International (CI) announced the launch of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge — a call to action to make coffee the first sustainable agricultural product…