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• Des ateliers d’évaluation au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire ont permis de recueillir les principales recommandations des parties prenantes de l’Initiative Cacao et Forêts pour l’après 2020 

  A l’instar de nombreuses organisations, l’Initiative Cacao et Forêts (ICF) a été confrontée cette année à des difficultés dues à la pandémie mondiale de la Covid-19. Les restrictions gouvernementales…

  Des ateliers d’évaluation au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire ont permis de recueillir les principales recommandations des parties prenantes de l’Initiative Cacao et Forêts pour l’après 2020 

• Landscape Level Forum in Ghana is first of its kind to facilitate a cross section representation of all relevant high-level landscape stakeholders

  On 23 September 2020, a high-level stakeholder engagement forum that aimed to connect the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI) commitments to landscape stakeholders and to emphasize the urgency for…

  Landscape Level Forum in Ghana is first of its kind to facilitate a cross section representation of all relevant high-level landscape stakeholders

• IDH partners with Laudes Foundation and WWF India for a regenerative production landscape in Madhya Pradesh, India

  IDH has partnered with Laudes Foundation and WWF India, to launch ‘Regenerative Production Landscape: People, Nature, Economy’, a landscape program based on regenerative and restorative farming principles in Madhya Pradesh,…

  IDH partners with Laudes Foundation and WWF India for a regenerative production landscape in Madhya Pradesh, India

• Joint platform event Human Rights Due Diligence

  What is the role and responsibility of different actors along the cocoa supply chain? . On November 9th 2020, the three European platforms for sustainable cocoa (Beyond Chocolate, GISCO and…

  Joint platform event Human Rights Due Diligence

• Letter from Joost Oorthuizen

  Dear colleagues and friends, I have enjoyed every minute of the last twelve years, but there is a time for everything, and now is the moment for me to move on. It…

  Letter from Joost Oorthuizen

• New CEO: Daan Wensing

  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…

  New CEO: Daan Wensing

• 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…

  IDH UK endorses industry deforestation due diligence response

• 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…

  Cooperation through PPI (Production, Protection, and Inclusion) approach opens access to market for Krong Nang smallholders

• Seafood MAP: First Tests to start in October

  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…

  Seafood MAP: First Tests to start in October

• 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…

  Press Release: Cargill Tropical Palm and IDH working together to help independent Indonesian palm oil smallholders increase yields sustainably

• 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…

  Dutch Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (DISCO) launched

• Podcast: Green Recovery in the Land Use Sector

  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…

  Podcast: Green Recovery in the Land Use Sector

• 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…

  Working towards better nutrition in the tea gardens

• 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…

  IDH TA Facility strengthens second investment of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund in Bhutan