Farmer Livelihoods, Business Models and Resilience
How businesses trade with farmers matters to their profitability and can contribute to farmer livelihoods and resilience. Mark Lundy from CIAT works with a wide range of coffee stakeholders, noting…
Plenary: Supporting Resilience in the Coffee Sector
“When we think about resilience – we’re thinking about both the plant, the producers and the livelihoods going forward.” Mark Lundy of CIAT goes on to lay out what climate…
An Overview of Sector Governance
Building high performing and resilient sectors requires looking beyond the value chain and improving the governance of a sector. The last two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on company…
Private Sector Consultation on Climate Smart Agriculture
Smallholder farmers around the globe are facing unstable productivity due to changing climate and weather patterns. The ways in which the private sector supports these farmers to build resilience to…
Assessing Suppliers
While brands and manufacturers endeavor to understand sustainability performance on the ground, they may also be interested in how individual direct suppliers contribute to that performance through their policies and…
Backbone Organizations
Many sectors have developed platform or “backbone” organizations with a mandate to collect and manage precompetitive data. While there is a large amount of detailed data out there currently (farm…
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…
Training and service delivery models
Speakers: Roberto Vega, Syngenta; Christine Condo, Sustainable Harvest; Brian Gleeson, Catholic Relief Services Training and Service Delivery: Key to Successful Agriprenuers: A discussion of innovative and effective service delivery models that incentivize…
Climate Resilience in Coffee
Speakers: Mark Lundy, CIAT; Laurence Jassogne, IITA; Britta Deutsch, HRNS Africa Building coffee growing communities that are resilient to climate change and can sell into stable, resilience value chains was the…
Water Smart Agriculture: A requirement for resilient farms and supply chains
The CEO Water Mandate couldn’t have stated it more clearly: “Water poses one of the most vital sustainable development challenges of our time.” Increasing pressures on water reserves and the…
