SDM Case Report: Sustainable Management Services (SMS), Kenya

1 May 2020

Read about the SDM case study on Sustainable Management Services (SMS) in Kenya here.

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8 Dec 2023

Action through collaboration: Highlights from the IDH Market Transformation Summit 2023

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1 Dec 2023

Africa

Terms of Reference: Mid-term evaluation study for the Coffee Farmer Income Resilience Program

The high-level objective of the Coffee Farmer Income resilience Program (CFIRP), a partnership between the…

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21 Nov 2023

The bears louder than the bulls as companies prepare for EU deforestation regulation

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3 Nov 2023

Asia

RFI: Empanelment of Implementing Partners for the Karnataka Climate Resilient Coffee and Spices Landscape (KCRL) Program

Recognizing the climate change faced by the coffee and spices growing farmers in Karnataka, IDH…

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31 Oct 2023

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin American

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Implementing the European regulation on deforestation-free products: Solutions for the palm oil, cocoa and coffee sectors

While the EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR) is an important step towards combatting deforestation globally, it will come at a cost to operators selling products on the EU market. And it may lead them to adopt sourcing strategies that exclude smallholder farmers from their supply chains. However, smallholder farmers’ inclusion in European supply chains is key to ensuring they are not left to sell to other markets at a lower price – thereby jeopardizing their livelihoods and, ultimately, forests. The optimal way forward is to allow them to benefit from access to the European market and to leverage the regulation as an incentive to keep forests intact. The timing for developing effective interventions is limited and should rely on the solutions that have already been tried and tested. IDH has co-designed with the private sector a number of programs to ensure that the EUDR will not incentivize disengagement from areas with high deforestation risks, nor the exclusion of the most marginalized smallholder farmers from European supply chains. These solutions are designed through public-private collaborative processes, and aim to be replicated and brought to scale over the coming years.

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SDM Case Report: Sustainable Management Services (SMS), Kenya

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