Keeping Change Moving When Everything Stops
Many of us are finding silver linings in the global shutdown, even as we fret about the fate of our more vulnerable partners in farming communities bound to suffer dearly…
TaskForce for Coffee Living Income: Bridging the Gap from Procurement Practices to Living Income in Coffee Growers
By Stephanie Daniels The concept of living income of farmers allows us to consider if the combined effect of various farming practices, voluntary sustainability standards, productivity investments and premiums prices…
“Asetina Yiedie Akonhoma” Food Lab Teams Up with Kuapa Kokoo and Guittard Chocolate on Living Income
In 2018, the Food Lab (in our role with the Living Income Community of Practice) supported the Ghana cocoa sector to establish a sector wide living income benchmark and publicize…
Vanilla can be a Profitable and Climate-Smart Crop for Smallholder Farmers
Don Seville, Executive Director of the Food Lab, is a facilitator of the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI), an industry initiative, which aims to promote the long-term stable supply of high quality,…
Living Income Community of Practice Wraps up 2018
The Sustainable Food Lab, GIZ and the ISEAL Alliance founded and co-host the Living Income Community of Practice, which is dedicated to the vision of thriving, economically stable, rural communities…
Report Release on Ghana Living Income Benchmark
The Living Income Community of Practice, of which the Food Lab is a founding partner, released a report on the Ghana Living Income Benchmark & Analysis of Income Gaps for…
An Introduction to Assessing Climate Resilience in Smallholder Supply Chains
In collaboration with the USAID Feed the Future Learning Community for Supply Chain Resilience—a consortium comprised of climate scientists from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food…
Enabling Smallholder Farmers to Improve Their Incomes
The Sustainable Food Lab and Business Fights Poverty have been collaborating to advance learning on how to improve the economic benefits of trade with smallholder farmers. Growth in those farmers’…
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…
Reflection and Going Forward
The Community of Practice convenes each year to better understanding the smallholder farmers we work with and to improve sustainable supply and livelihoods. Data alone is insufficient for learning. Exchange…
