Empowering Smallholder Farmers to Improve their Incomes
Millions of smallholders live in poverty, unable to meet basic needs. Smallholder farmers need to improve their incomes and competitiveness if they are to achieve and sustain a decent standard…
Webinar: How to address nutrition in agricultural supply chains
Addressing malnutrition in value chains can be good for business: it can contribute to higher productivity and contribute to the integrity of brands. But, when and how to measure ‘nutrition’ can be complex and…
How Dirty is Sustainable Agriculture?
Despite the title, this blog is not about sex, unless we consider the teeming reproductive activity of billions of micro-organisms in every tablespoon of fertile soil. I’m writing for those…
Farm Economic Modeling
Several organizations are using Farm Economic Models as “thinking tools” to inform strategy by looking at how different variables in different magnitudes and times affect outcomes in specific contexts. More…
Income Measurement
Sustainable livelihoods are the goal of countless initiatives, leaving many wondering if and how companies and organizations can effectively measure income gains and improvements beyond adoption of good agricultural practices. Mars,…
Sector Governance
We often focus on farm or value chain and landscape level initiatives. This presentation looked at the benefits of sector development and ways to measure health and progress over time…
Practice Adoption
Measuring adoption of good agricultural practices by farmers is a key metric and some argue the only reliable way to track the impact of agricultural interventions on issues such as…
Nutrition
Nutrition is increasingly being identified as a key challenge within sourcing communities and an area where companies and their implementing are focusing more time and resources to investigate the nutritional…
Hitting targets while missing the point
A senior sustainability leader commented the other day that sustainable sourcing programs might be in danger of hitting their targets while missing the point. As sustainability is operationalized, we might…
Goal of Sustainable Livelihoods
Speakers: Ileana Resendez, Heifer; Cheryl Pinto, Ben and Jerry’s; Jefferson Shriver, CRS Living Income key points: Incorporating a Living Income (LI) approach is a much slower initial process with partners, but in…
