How can data-sharing partnerships enhance access to finance for smallholder farmers?
Access to finance is a key challenge holding back smallholder farmers. This finance gap represents a business opportunity ripe for innovation. Data-sharing partnerships hold the potential for improving access to…
Landscape approaches and their impact Evaluating IDH efforts in creating cohesive conservation Following five years of IDH’s Landscape Program, KIT Royal Tropical Institute and Unique Land Use carried…
McCormick & Company is a major purchaser of black pepper from Vietnam, the world’s largest black pepper producing country. To achieve its 2025 Purpose-Led Performance Goal to sustainably source…
2020 Farmfit Insights Report now live: Smallholder Services Provision as a Viable Business
At IDH we have a vision: Highly productive and inclusive agricultural supply chains that empower African farmers and businesses to self-sufficiency. Through IDH Farmfit we are working towards achieving this…
Insights Report: Service Provision as a Viable Business
Learn about how our partners are getting sustainable returns for their business, while empowering farmers through service delivery. This report shares our most complete findings on commercially…
Charging smallholder farmers for products and services for a stronger sustainable sourcing strategy One of the world’s biggest commodity traders, ECOM, is taking sustainable sourcing to a new level:…
Report: Farmer and Local trader-led service delivery models
IDH developed a data driven methodology to analyze service models and improve the quality of our investments. We wanted to better understand the conditions that make services to smallholder farmers…
In Tanzania, IDH and Unilever Tea Tanzania are working on the Mufindi Outgrowers Project (MOG) since 2014. The objective of the project is to enhance the livelihoods of smallholder farmers…
This article was originally published on P-plus in Dutch and was translated by IDH. A fund that reduces the risk of investors, so small tropical farmers can finance their…