Living Income Guidance for Governments
A new guidance document is available on “The Role of Governments in Enabling Living Income in Global Agriculture Value Chains: Guidance for public policy makers”. The document creation was led…
Food Lab Supports an Ambitious 10-Year Plan to Transform Coffee
Building on many years of work on sustainability in the coffee sector, a recent commitment from the International Coffee Council (ICC) and its secretariat the International Coffee Organization (ICO) has…
Soil Health Leadership Lab Continues to Grow
The Food Lab, together with over 25 soil health specialists from across the U.S. (IA, ID, IL, IN, NE, KS, SD, ND, MN, MI, OH, VT, VA, PA) is launching…
Cool Soil Initiative Launches in Australia
Mark Torrens, a grain buyer for Mars Petcare, had been watching the changes in weather and wheat yields across the Asia-Pacific region, and he worried about future supply. Four years…
Funding Secured to Continue to Make Diverse Rotations Work!
The Food Lab is thrilled to announce that together with Practical Farmers of Iowa, we have been awarded a Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) which will expand our work to understand the value…
A Living Income Toolkit from the Food Lab and GIZ
Farmers cannot invest in their farms if they can’t cover their costs of production and generate a margin for reinvestment. One of the Food Lab’s key tenants to a sustainable…
On-Farm Data Continues to Reveal Benefits of Diverse Rotations
PFI has observed benefits from diverse rotations with small grains, including GHG reductions, roots in the ground year-round and yield improvements, from farmers like Tom Frantzen pictured above We are…
Closing the Living Income Gap: An Integrated Approach from Heifer International
As mentioned in one of our previous blog posts, the Living income Community of Practice, co-hosted by the Food Lab, ISEAL and GIZ, has shifted our annual workshop originally planned for Abidjan…
Business Guide for Addressing Food Loss & Waste in Smallholder Systems
Learning from Two Value Chain Pilots Informs New Business Guide for Addressing Food Loss & Waste in Smallholder Systems Smallholder supply chains and family farms in the developing world hold…
Cover Crop Leadership Lab Takes Root
With help from the McKnight and Walton Family Foundation, Practical Farmers of Iowa and the Food Lab have launched the Cover Crop Leadership Lab (CCLL), a peer to peer group…
