IDH Farmfit provides new incentives for financial service providers to step into agricultural finance
Unlocking the USD 200 billion smallholder finance market The Mastercard Foundation Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab (the Lab) and IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) have joined forces…
This report estimates a living wage for the lower Volta River area of Ghana where bananas are produced for export. The living wage estimate in this report is based on…
Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana release Implementation plans of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative
The government of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and the companies involved in the chocolate and cocoa supply chain, have agree on a series of practical actions to implement the Joint Framework…
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…
5 reasons companies are collaborating to end deforestation
This blog was originally posted on GreenBiz. Agricultural and forestry commodities, such as soy, palm oil, beef, timber and cocoa, are some of the leading causes of rainforest destruction…
Next steps to halt deforestation announced by chocolate industry and government of Ghana
The government of Ghana and companies involved in the chocolate and cocoa supply chain presented a series of practical actions to implement the Joint Framework of Action signed at COP23…
Joint efforts of chocolate industry and government of Côte d’Ivoire to halt deforestation announced
Today the government of Côte d’Ivoire and companies involved in the chocolate and cocoa supply chain presented a series of practical actions to implement the Joint Framework of Action signed…
Why engaging in a landscape approach is good for business
A new series of case analyses by IDH shows why it makes good business sense for companies to engage in a landscape approach to sustainable production, forest…