Tagged with "Ecuador"

• Supporting healthy and safe employment of women workers in the Ghanaian banana industry

  The Banana Occupational Health and Safety Initiative (BOHESI) has gone a long way to support improved occupational health and safety (OHS) practices in the Ghanaian banana sector, with activities in…

  Supporting healthy and safe employment of women workers in the Ghanaian banana industry

• Aquaculture Program in Ecuador and Latin America

  Aquaculture production in Latin America is expected to increase by 49% up to 2030. This increase in production must remain within the limits of sustainability. Ecuador is the second largest…

  Aquaculture Program in Ecuador and Latin America

• Sustainable Shrimp Partnership launches first zero-antibiotic shrimp on the market

  A pre-competitive coalition of Ecuadorian shrimp producers, the Sustainable Shrimp Partnership, offered their first batch of shrimp to the market. All SSP members are committed to farming shrimp which meet…

  Sustainable Shrimp Partnership launches first zero-antibiotic shrimp on the market

• Disease management to achieve sustainability goals in tropical aquaculture has a clear business case

  The environmental costs of diseases, mortality and antibiotics are high in tropical aquaculture. Fish that die before they are sold are obviously a waste of inputs. Overuse of anti-biotics, creates…

  Disease management to achieve sustainability goals in tropical aquaculture has a clear business case

• Why paying a living wage is good for both workers and business

  To get insight into why paying a living wage is good for both workers and business, we outline, in a new series of cases, the ins and…

  Why paying a living wage is good for both workers and business

• 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…

  Aquascapes: a sustainable landscape approach for the sea

• Giving banana workers a decent standard of living

  IDH is working towards living wages in the banana sector, supporting specific interventions in Ghana and Ecuador and in Costa Rica and Belize. Employment in the export sector promises a…

  Giving banana workers a decent standard of living

• Living Wages in the Banana sector

  Employment in the export sector promises a potential solution for poor working conditions and low wages. In many production countries, however, it is common that workers receive insufficient wages to…

  Living Wages in the Banana sector

• The launch of the BOHESI Training Manual in Ecuador

  The BOHESI training manual was officially launched by the Ecuadorian Minister of Labor, Raul Clemente Ledesma Huerta, the Ecuadorian Minister of Agriculture, Rubén Flores, together with representatives from the World…

  The launch of the BOHESI Training Manual in Ecuador

• Improving working conditions on banana plantations across Ecuador

  The use of an Occupational Health and Safety training manual is currently being piloted in Ecuador, the world’s largest exporter of bananas. Bananas are a key fresh produce category…

  Improving working conditions on banana plantations across Ecuador