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 linked to global food and agricultural supply chains. The goal of the community is to support activities focused on improving smallholder incomes towards living incomes,…
In honor of World Soil Day, the Food Lab has created a soil health communications toolkit to help our partners talk to the business relevance of soil health. The toolkit includes: An open source slide deck that connects the importance of soil health to business, identifies best practices and showcases private sector actions. The deck is…
As a member of the Living Income Community of Practice, SFL is excited to announce that our last Living Income Webinar of the year is taking place this week. Don’t miss the webinar: Pricing Mechanisms in the Cocoa Sector: Options to Reduce Price Volatility and Promote Farmer Value Capture Taking place on Thursday, December 6th from…
This month, Sustainable Food Lab launched a monthly Small Grains in the Corn Belt Initiative newsletter. In partnership with Practical Farmers of Iowa, the goal of this initiative is to establish the right conditions to make small grains work for farmers in the Midwest with the assumption that market demand is necessary to incentivize diversifying…
Daniella Malin, Senior Program Director of Agriculture & Climate at SFL and Deputy General Managerof the Cool Farm Tool is the co-author of a new article, Cool Farm Tool Water: A global on-line tool to assess water use in crop production. Published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the article introduces the methodology for the popular…
The Impact Leadership Lab is a peer learning community of sustain ability and sourcing professionals in companies. Their next adventure will be a June 2019 learning journey with dairy farm leaders in Quebec and the US, comparing these two very different market systems and results for farmer wellbeing as well as the abilities of farmers to invest in sustainability…
Global food companies have questions about food loss and waste; the Sustainable Food Lab and Wageningen University & Research want to help them get answers. Through a partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, we are engaging a number of companies to learn more about the potential for increasing efficiencies in smallholder supply chains by reducing food…
Written by Hal Hamilton Sustainability in the business world always begins with quick wins. We increase efficiency with energy, water and fertilizer, for example. Those innovations save money and so are able to scale naturally. Then it gets harder. Beyond the early steps we face three barriers: Organizational resistance Systemic resistance Internal resistance. To get…
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 Cocoa Growing Regions. The study outlines a roadmap to achieve living incomes for cocoa farmers through a credible, third party analysis. Follow these links to the…
Like many agricultural crops, coffee is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. How to Climate Proof Your Coffee Supply Chain is an eight part webinar series geared towards coffee suppliers, investors and other industry stakeholders. The Sustainable Food Lab, the USAID Feed the Future Alliance for Resilient Coffee (ARC) and Global Coffee Platform have partnered to…