Vanilla Stakeholders meet in Madagascar to Discuss Joint Strategy for Quality
On March 27th 2019, SVI members and their Madagascar partners had their very first round table meeting at Ocean Momo, in Antalaha. The meeting gathered 51 participants and was…
Uganda’s next step toward becoming a leader in quality vanilla
This week, in a big win for the Uganda vanilla sector, the Minister of State for Agriculture made a declaration of harvest dates for vanilla, starting on June 15th for…
The Vanilla 2019 Conference will be held November 4-8, 2019 in Moshi, Tanzania, focusing on the future of vanilla and vanillin. For more information on the program, please see the…
Vanilla can be a Profitable and Climate-Smart Crop for Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
On a recent trip to Uganda, SVI members rallied for increased regulations and policies that seek to improve the sustainability of the vanilla sector. Through meetings with over 35 individuals…
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…
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…
Listen to our latest podcast on sustainable vanilla
Hear more about the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative in the latest episode of the IDH podcast. Jan Gilhuis, Senior Program Manager in the IDH Fresh & Ingredients Program, and Don Seville,…
A dozen of companies joined our Fresh & Ingredients program in the last quarter, increasing the power of the program. The members commit to increase in sustainable volumes sourced.
Supporting sustainable and child labor free vanilla growing communities in Sava
IDH, through the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative, together with the International Labor Office start the project ‘SAVA-BE’ in the vanilla sector. A project to supporting sustainable and child labor free vanilla…