Sustainable Vanilla Initiative Podcast
Don Seville, Co-director of the Sustainable Food Lab, and Jan Gilhuis, Senior Program Manager in the IDH Fresh & Ingredients Program, discuss the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative. Hear about the motivation…
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…
Webinar: How to address nutrition in agricultural supply chains
Addressing malnutrition in value chains can be good for business: it can contribute to higher productivity and contribute to the integrity of brands. But, when and how to measure ‘nutrition’ can be complex and…
US Department of Labor supports the development of a sustainable vanilla sector
SAMBAVA MADAGASCAR (May 18, 2017) – The US Department of Labor (USDOL) has provided $ 4 million to the International Labor Office (ILO) to support Madagascar in promoting a sustainable…
Reaching Beyond the Value Chain
The last two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on company and supply chain driven approaches to promote sustainable production and trade of agricultural commodities. Large food and commodity traders,…
How Can Companies Harness the SDGs to Strengthen Smallholder Supply Chains?
Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represents a significant value creating opportunity for business. According to the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, achieving the SDGs will create up to…
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…
From Evidence to Action
The year’s workshop was focused on how companies are using data to inform strategy on the ground. Two such examples were presented by ABInBev and Mars, Inc. of how they…
Practice Adoption
Measuring adoption of good agricultural practices by farmers is a key metric and some argue the only reliable way to track the impact of agricultural interventions on issues such as…
