Past Events

Living Income requires multiple levers to be addressed by multiples actors. One determining factor that cuts across all of these is whether farmers are able to access proper financial services that allow them to invest in their farms to improve productivity, to lower production costs and household expenses and to diversify their incomes. Accessing proper financing is key to tackle multiple challenges linked with smallholder farming and achieving living incomes.   Join us in an exciting LICOP webinar where IDH…

As a co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab welcomes it's partners to a webinar focusing on Living Wage and Living Income Reference Values.  Joined by Martha Anker, Richard Anker, and members of the Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) and the Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP), this webinar will present new methodology for estimating living wages and living incomes, which builds on the Anker Methodology. The Anker Reference Value method is an important development for…

In this webinar, hosted by the Living Income Community of Practice, we will be joined by Yuca Waarts from Wageningen University & Research to discuss the macroeconomic factors that must accompany higher prices to avoid the vicious cycle of oversupply and subsequent price collapses. Yuca will review previous supply management systems in coffee and dairy in the EU, asking what can we learn and apply to the cocoa industry?  Finally we'll be joined by Canadian Dairy Farmer, Jason Erskine, who…

As co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab is happy to the invite partners to the upcoming webinar Living Income Reference Prices – Calculation and private sector insights. In this webinar a tool for calculating living income reference prices will be presented showing data from Ethiopian coffee farmers. In addition, private sector companies and different initiatives will discuss their approach to as well as experience with living income reference prices.   Registration is available here.

As co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab is happy to the invite partners to the upcoming webinar Integrating living income into your business.  This webinar is a great opportunity for those who are new to the concept or those struggling to navigate the challenges of progress. During this webinar we’ll be joined by industry leaders Olam, Tesco and Sustainalytics. This session is designed to create a space for companies to share experiences, discuss structural challenges faced,…

As co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab is happy to the invite partners to this upcoming webinar focusing on the impacts of market-based sustainability tools on farmer livelihoods. There is now a critical mass of empirical evidence to help understand the impacts of market-based sustainability tools on farmer incomes and livelihoods. This webinar will be an opportunity to explore this evidence base creatively and analytically through the Evidensia platform (www.evidensia.eco) to support research, policy and…

Join Nespresso, GIZ and the Food Lab to discuss the role of gender and living income in the upcoming webinar, Gender-differentiated Strategies to Close the Living Income Gap for Smallholder Coffee Producers in Ethiopia. We'll be discussing examples from a project in the South Western highlands of Ethiopia with smallholder coffee farmers. To register for the webinar click here.

As co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab is happy to the invite partners to the upcoming webinar on Measuring and Analyzing Living Income in the Madhya Pradesh Cotton Sector. This webinar is a practical case of measuring the living income gap using recently released guidance tools from the Living Income Community of Practice. Actual income measurement to estimate living income gaps is still a challenging exercise due to its complexity and contextual nature. Our partner ISEAL has worked for…