IDH is happy to announce the appointment of Daan Wensing as its new CEO, effective October 19. Daan Wensing has been a key member of IDH’s Management and Leadership team…
IDH UK endorses industry deforestation due diligence response
IDH UK has supported 22 major companies including Unilever and Nestlé with a response on proposed UK legislation for due diligence requirements for forest risk commodities. The main conclusion is…
Cooperation through PPI (Production, Protection, and Inclusion) approach opens access to market for Krong Nang smallholders
The “Global village” of today’s world is based on global economic integration. There is a clear need for a holistic strategy that integrates international market access, smallholder incomes, and committed…
A new phase is about to begin for the Seafood MAP project. After consultations with various GSSI Partners and stakeholders over the summer, the first tests of…
Press Release: Cargill Tropical Palm and IDH working together to help independent Indonesian palm oil smallholders increase yields sustainably
More than 8,900 independent smallholders to be trained in good agricultural practice as part of Cargill’s commitments to smallholder inclusion Jakarta, 30 September 2020 – Cargill has signed an…
Dutch Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (DISCO) launched
Committing the Netherlands which accounts for approximately 20-25% of cocoa traded globally to enable cocoa farming families to earn a Living Income, end cocoa related deforestation and forest degradation and…
In this podcast Nienke Stam, Program Director of Landscape Finance at IDH; Bambi Semroc, Vice President for the Centre for Sustainable Lands and Waters at Conservation International and…
Working towards better nutrition in the tea gardens
Tea workers, smallholder farmers and their families often consume diets which lack diversity, leaving them nutritionally vulnerable. We worked with Unilever and…
IDH TA Facility strengthens second investment of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund in Bhutan
The Land Degradation Neutrality Technical Assistance Facility (LDN TAF) supports Mountain Hazelnuts, a social enterprise producing premium quality hazelnuts in Bhutan. The LDN Fund is providing long-term financing to Mountain…
Sustainable palm oil in Europe: Recap from SPOD2020
Together with RSPO and the European Palm Oil Alliance, we hosted a virtual Sustainable Palm Oil Dialogue (SPOD). Hugo Schally, DG Environment of the European Commission opened the event by…
Environmental improvements combined with financial savings in the apparel industry
New Tier 1 Vietnam program Today, on Zero Emissions Day, the world aims to give our planet a day off. A day with little or no carbon gas emissions, giving…
Joost Oorthuizen becomes CEO of Invest International
Effective October 19th, 2020, our CEO Joost Oorthuizen will become the CEO of a new, to be set up, development and investment bank in the Netherlands called Invest International…
Equipo Latam de IDH evalúa el escenario y planifica la actuación para los próximos meses
La pandemia de Covid-19 exigió también una adaptación en la forma de interacción de los equipos de IDH en Brasil y Colombia (América Latina–Latam) con sus aliados y colaboradores. Tradicionalmente,…
Fapcen e IDH promueven reuniones con apoyadores del Pacto PPI de la Región de Balsas-MA
Desde la presentación de la propuesta de construcción del Pacto Producir, Preservar e Incluir (PPI) para la región de Balsas-MA, el 10 de julio, Fapcen (Fundación de Apoyo a la…