Green Cocoa Landscape Program launched in Cameroon
On 6 September, IDH organized an inception meeting for the coalition. More than 35 participants attended from government, industry and civil society to discuss the challenges and areas that can…
Helping farmers in Tanzania benefit from boosting tea production
The average income of tea farmers in Mufindi, Tanzania rose by 56% over the past four years, enabling better living conditions for 1400 small scale farmers. The project, called he…
SVI and the International Labor Organization (ILO) partner for child protection
The Sustainable Vanilla Initiative has been actively collaborating with the ILO and the US Department of Labor since 2017 to address the concerns raised about child labor in the vanilla…
Strengthening the Linkages of Pepper Production in Vietnam
Pepper has been present in 95 countries and territories around the world and it is currently one of the main seven export agricultural products in Vietnam. In 2016, Vietnam’s pepper…
IDH launches Call for Proposal to achieve higher efficiency of tropical aquaculture
IDH seeks to replicate an approach that analyzes pathogen in relation with host and environment and uses those data to formulate mitigating actions. Flavio Corsin, Director Aquaculture at IDH: ‘It is…
Advocacy from the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative and local partners resulted in a government-issued decree to maintain campaign opening dates, to the mid-July 2018 date in Sava region. These campaign…
IDH collaborates with Syngenta Foundation India for service delivery to farmers
IDH in India has entered into a workplan agreement with Syngenta Foundation India (SFI), under which the organizations will work together on providing service delivery to the farmers in the…
Strengthening women empowerment work across IDH India programs
The MoU was signed by Mr. Joost Oorthuizen, Executive Director – IDH and Ms. Jyoti Macwan, Executive Secretary – SEWA. The agreement lays down common vision and objectives…
Colombia Becomes First Country in Latin America to Commit to Deforestation-Free Chocolate
The Government of Colombia – along with its largest cocoa company, Casa Luker, and the members of the National Cocoa Federation – has committed to eliminate deforestation from the country’s…
Apparel program supports shift in how workers engage with factory management
Recently the first iteration of factories have graduated from the Race to the Top program, and a shift has been identified in how the factory’s supervisors treat the workers, how…