Living Income and the Risk of Economic Vulnerability
Inflation is at record levels and food shortages abound due to logistics issues and the war in Ukraine. This is both a difficult time to work on increasing farmer income…
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,…
Investing in Youth in Coffee Growing Communities
In collaboration with partners Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) and Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Environment (SAFE), we are happy to share a new report, Investing in Youth in Coffee Growing Communities,…
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…
From Source to Sink
This session highlighted two case studies of quantifying GHGs for impact using the Cool Farm Tool. Axelle Bodoy, Global Milk CO2 – GHG manager at Danone shared how Danone is…
Keynote: Mexico’s Government: Developing the Roadmap for Agricultural Resilience
Mexico’s Agriculture Ministry SAGARPA (The Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food) is focused on creating an environment in which farmers thrive and which is attractive for the…
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…
