Sector Transformation
Much of the work to improve the performance of commodity sectors with large numbers of smallholders like coffee, tea and cocoa has been anchored in specific supply chains with voluntary standards. Meanwhile,…
Building a coalition for Living Wages
Sebastian Michaelis from Tata/Tetley, Jordy van Honk from Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH and Sloane Hamilton from Oxfam GB discussed how the tea sector developed a shared commitment to living wages…
Corporate Commitments and Collective Action
Nienke Stam from IDH, Simon Lord from Sime Darby, Richard Fox from Finlays, Juliana Lopez from Amaggi and Charlotte Cawthorne from Innocentdiscussed corporate commitments to zero-deforestation or water stewardship and what…
US Food Companies Collaborate to Increase Supply of Organic Grain
Many of the countries’ largest organic food companies are working together to overcome a shared challenge: how to increase the supply of organic grain. This group has recently made some…
Plenary: Arcos Dorados
Latin America’s McDonald’s franchise and the Syngenta Foundation share their initiative to scale local sourcing from smallholders across the entire LA region, and how they think about the business case for…
Value Added Processing Owned by a Farmer Cooperative
REOPA has partnered with processor Gandules to fill a gap for their season and a need for a European customer. Jose Jacinto from REOPA, Paola Mercado from VECO Andina and…
Value Added Social Business Sourcing and Investing in Independent Smallholders
Augusto Ferdanini from AgroMantaro shared their model to grow and process smallholder artichokes in the central highlands through a partnership with General Mills Foundation and Green Giant Europe. The themes discussed…
Smallholder Livelihoods Assessment
Meghan Quinlan from Fair Trade USA and Whitney Gantt from Grameen Foundation discussed how we ground sustainable supply chain programs in a better understanding of farm level conditions, what the…
Identifying and Motivating Climate Smart Ag Practices
This session offered leading examples of structural mechanisms to incentivize Climate Smart Agriculture being done by Hivos, Rainforest Alliance and CEPICAFE. We looked at projects in Peru, Nicaragua, and Ghana…
Training Tomorrow’s Farmers – a model for common sense, effective farmer capacity building.
The Interamerican Development Bank supports local governments in northern Peru to integrate practical farmer training into the national technical training programs. Rather than sitting in a classroom, young farmers are…
