Two years on, what can we learn about providing credit to smallholders?
Learning with market leader Barry Callebaut: providing inputs on credit to smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire. In 2016, Barry Callebaut, leading supplier of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products,…
National Sustainability Curriculum for Pepper embraced by the Vietnamese government
Crucial steps to sustainably produce pepper in Vietnam achieved. Together with our partners within the Vietnamese taskforce on Pepper and Agrochemicals, a National Sustainability Curriculum for Pepper has been developed…
The Farm and Coop Investment program (FCIP) aims to improve the professionalization of cooperatives and farmer, and improve their access to finance and markets, increasing their investment in farm…
Responsible sourcing is ensuring that materials sourced by a company has been done in a sustainable and ethical manner – integrating social and environmental performance factors. Companies today are increasingly…
Investing in Inclusive Agribusiness for Sustainable Food Markets
IDH helps businesses understand the conditions that services can be efficiently and cost-effectively provided to smallholder farmers, with a sustainable return on investment. We help partners develop new, inclusive business…
Tea supply chain collaboration continues to show progress in Malawi
Through efforts of the Malawi Tea 2020 programme, wages of tea workers have increased. The net living wage gap closed with 25%. This means that tea workers on tea plantations…
Podcast: Why a gender approach is good for farmers, business and the sector as a whole
How is maternity leave on the farm level connected to a favorable position in the international market? In this month’s podcast we share learnings and best practices on applying a…
Developing Rwandan horticulture by linking local producers to global market
With the HortInvest project, IDH joined a consortium of multiple organizations and private sector companies to further develop the horticulture sector in Rwanda. As the demand for high value crops…
Aquascapes: a sustainable landscape approach for the sea
Over the past decades the aquaculture sector has been growing enormously, and continues to grow faster than other major food production sectors. Nowadays, 53% of all fish consumed comes from…
Integrated Pest Management project to support sustainable vegetable farming in Ethiopia
IDH and the Pesticide Action Network (PAN-UK) have started implementing a project to support healthy, sustainable and productive vegetable farming in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. About 600 households…
Brazil: IDH and partners start engaging cattle ranchers in sustainable beef production
On 18-20 September, IDH and its partners started engaging cattle ranchers in the Araguaia Valley, northeast Mato Grosso state in Brazil, in the recently launched Sustainable Production of Calves program…
In collaboration with IDH, trustea has been driving sustainability in the Indian tea industry. To gain insights into the impact the program has on the factories, gardens,…
In India, as part of a broader gender sensitization activity across IDH programs, 2,000 field facilitators have been trained on gender awareness in their work. Through their trainings, the field…