Open Source Soil Health Communications Toolkit
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…
Brand Panel
The brand panel set out to learn from companies addressing climate change and building resilient supply chains. How have they approached this? Are they able to make sustainability investments commercially…
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…
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…
Why Sustainable Food Needs Big Business, and Why Business Can’t Do It Alone
The short answer to “Why sustainable food needs big business?” is that both challenges and solutions are driven primarily in the market. Food and agriculture globally account for more greenhouse…
Corporate Commitments and Collective Action
Nienke Stam from IDH, Simon Lord from Sime Darby, Richard Fox from Finlays, Juliana Lopez from Amaggi and Charlotte Cawthorne from Innocentdiscussed corporate commitments to zero-deforestation or water stewardship and what…
Organizing Regional Collaboration to manage natural resources and improve social well-being
The IDH Sustainable Landscapes Initiative (ISLA) is focused on six landscape level efforts to shift the agricultural system towards sustainable resource management and resiliency. Neinke Stam of IDH introduced three…
Momentum Builds for Landscape Level Sustainable Watershed Initiatives
On April 1, the California Department of Water Resources hydrologists are expected to announce the smallest snowpack ever in state history. This will mark the fourth year of an unprecedented drought that…
Measure to Manage Food Loss in Supply Chains
The shocking statistic that 33 percent of food is lost or wasted—one out of every three calories—begs the question, what can food and beverage companies do about food loss and…
Coffee and Cocoa Companies Plan for Climate Change Impacts
As multinational companies grow more sophisticated in understanding their supply chains, the research community is also getting better at modeling and predicting future weather patterns, diseases, water availability and other…
