News and Resources

• Message to IDH partners

  As we close 2022, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our partners for their collaboration, for their commitment and dedication to create better jobs,…

  Message to IDH partners

• Podcast: Can the block farming model help us make progress towards food systems transformation?

  Listen to the AGRF podcast now Africa is the largest producer of cassava in the world. Yet, internationally, Africa does not feature in the USD…

  Podcast: Can the block farming model help us make progress towards food systems transformation?

• Green champions: How farmers are restoring great Mau Forest

  Securing the livelihoods of communities living around the Mau Forest Complex through sensitization, training and empowerment has significantly boosted efforts to restore the water tower. The 400 hectares Mau…

  Green champions: How farmers are restoring great Mau Forest

• IDH introduces framework to promote inclusive agriculture development

  IDH through their Farmfit Program has convened key business and thought leaders in smallholder markets to introduce a new data-driven paradigm for inclusive agricultural development in what has…

  IDH introduces framework to promote inclusive agriculture development

• Beyond Chocolate Steering Committee

  Beyond Chocolate Steering Committee

• Towards an equal and safe workplace in the tea estate

  This year the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) successfully reached 60.000 of tea workers in India, 75% of them are women, about safe and empowering workplace. More than 300.000 community…

  Towards an equal and safe workplace in the tea estate

• Promoting responsible sourcing in India with frontrunning and domestic brands

  IDH India, with a view to create systematic engagement with supply and value chain actors and grow the responsible sourcing movement in India, is partnering with businesses to create a…

  Promoting responsible sourcing in India with frontrunning and domestic brands

• Belgian supermarkets commit to living wage in the banana sector by 2027

  Five major retailers in Belgium have joined forces to commit to a living wage for banana workers throughout their international supply chains. The coalition of retailers aims to close the…

  Belgian supermarkets commit to living wage in the banana sector by 2027

• African landscapes formalize their commitments towards becoming farmer and nature positive

  Three landscapes in Africa have taken the same approach to formalize their commitments towards sustainable production and enhance ecosystem resilience and community well-being. In South-East Liberia and in Ethiopia’s Central…

  African landscapes formalize their commitments towards becoming farmer and nature positive

• ISCO Mission to Ghana

  ISCO Mission to Ghana

• The Living Wage Action Guide is now live

  Explore how you can take action with your supply chain partners to close living wage gaps   IDH is launching a new resource under the Roadmap on Living Wages: the…

  The Living Wage Action Guide is now live

• Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund program strengthens awareness of gender-based violence in the tea industry through #16DaysOfActivism campaign

  Initiated in 2021, the goal of the Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund (WSAF) program has been to build awareness and understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) and support the tea industry to…

  Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund program strengthens awareness of gender-based violence in the tea industry through #16DaysOfActivism campaign

• How young girls and women are navigating change in the tea gardens of Assam- A generation equality perspective.

  Sonja Tassa, a young school teacher from Kamakhyabari tea estate (TE) is setting an example in the estate for other young girls to learn from. Sonja, a graduate, is passionate…

  How young girls and women are navigating change in the tea gardens of Assam- A generation equality perspective.

• IDH facilitates Rwanda’s first avocado export by sea freight

  On 25 November 2022, Rwanda shipped it’s first container of avocados by sea. Why is this a milestone worth celebrating? Right now, all horticulture produced in Rwanda is shipped via…

  IDH facilitates Rwanda’s first avocado export by sea freight