Service Delivery Models: Investing for Impact, ITC chili peppers in India
ITC Spices worked with IDH to understand the impact of their service delivery model (SDM) investments on chili pepper farms in India. The analysis showed positive return on investment for…
ENAWO Recovery Agricultural Program supporting vanilla communities
The Sustainable Vanilla Initiative has developed a program with CARE to support vanilla communities in Madagascar in their recovery from Tropical Cyclone ENAWO. ‘Agriculture Recovery to North Eastern Madagascar in…
Leading beverage companies commit to 100% sustainable juice
Leading European beverage and food companies have joined forces and formed a coalition aiming for 100% sustainable juice and puree by 2030. Under the coordination of IDH, the Sustainable Trade…
Introducing cocoa farming to Madagascar’s vanilla production region
IDH supporting Barry Callebaut and Prova’s joint project empowering vanilla farmers. Barry Callebaut and Prova are launching a joint project empowering vanilla farmers in Madagascar, with IDH supporting…
Measuring volumes from responsible sources; FSI ambition
In the last months, the project partners and FSI members have been working together to finalise the measuring protocol and get some first experiences on gathering the data.
At the 5th edition of IFTEX, the International Floriculture Trade Expo in Nairobi Kenya, FSI members based in East Africa met and discussed the new round of projects with those…
The Sustainable Grapes Initiative – India was launched last month in Mumbai together with partners and industry leaders. The initiative aims to increase the sustainability of grape production.
Vanilla industry agrees on farmer livelihood improvements
Last week in Paris there was an exciting event on Vanilla with 80% of the industry and 11 representatives from Madagascar. The participants agreed to sign a cooperation agreement for…
After a successful workshop in India last August, SSI partners and some potential members, agreed to launch ‘SSI India’. This group will focus not only on increasing supply…
There is business in sustainability; increasingly consumers are aware of sustainability issues, find these important, and even make it play a part in their purchasing decisions. But apparently, companies do…