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October 2019
The Shubh Mint Project: How partnerships and project design helped raise incomes of Indian mint farmers
Tanager and Mars Wrigley Confectionery have been working together in India since 2014 to help farmers the mint supply chain increase income and boost productivity. This webinar will be a discussion and presentation on the Shubh Mint Project, currently in its third year of implementation. Experts from Mars Wrigley Confectionery and Tanager will share lessons learned from the design and implementation of this project, with an eye towards how the project has improved lives and livelihoods of farmers, including a…
Find out more »Impact Lab Workshop
Impact Lab members are invited to a workshop in Minneapolis, at the offices of the McKnight Foundation. As always, the agenda will include time for peer support of one another’s work, practice of system leadership tools, and specific content: this time sharing about climate strategy and implementation (organizational goals, supply chain programs, and collaborations including government). The group will meet for dinner on Monday the 21st and stay through Wednesday afternoon on the 23rd. Following this workshop, Food Lab staff…
Find out more »World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting
Food Lab’s Stephanie Daniels will join the cocoa industry's premier sustainability event - the WCF Annual Partnership Meeting - and moderate the panel "Prosperous Farmers - How Other Sectors are Tackling Living Income". Panelists are Jordy van Honk, IDH and Malawi 2020 Tea Revistalisation Effort, Ivey Osei-Sampah, Ghana Coffee Federation and Uwe Gneiting, Oxfam and the Mars Farmer Income Lab.
Find out more »Small Grains & Livestock Feed Meeting
The Food Lab is co-hosting a small grains and livestock feed event with the University of Minnesota, Practical Farmers of Iowa, and Target to review GHG impacts from changing animal livestock feed rations to include small grains grown in rotation with corn and soybeans. Using the University of Minnesota's FoodS3 Model, we'll explore the potential for landscape change and ask questions like: What is the potential GHG impact of expanding small grain acres in the corn belt at scale? What type of…
Find out more »Cocoa Sector Advances on Living Income
The Living Income Community of Practice (co-facilitated by the Sustainable Food Lab, GIZ and ISEAL) will be holding a webinar focusing on the cocoa sector advances on living income. The announcement that the Ivorian and Ghanaian governments will raise the floor price for cocoa farmers, as well as levy an extra fee to cocoa buyers, is an important and necessary step in order to make the cocoa sector more sustainable. We will discuss this important development from the viewpoint of European…
Find out more »November 2019
Vanilla 2019 Conference
Sustainable Food Lab's Don Seville will attend and present at the Vanilla 2019 Conference in Moshi, Tanzania. The conference will focus on the future of vanilla and vanillin including the instability of vanilla production and supply. The agenda will consist of lectures and discussion on the origin of instability, what might be done to remedy this problem, promises and challenges in vanilla production in various global regions, prospects for vanilla production in new regions, and new methods for the production and…
Find out more »International Living Income & Wage Conference: The Only Way is Up
Organized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the International Living Income & Wage Conference will showcase innovation and best practices, stimulate dialogue and jointly step up the efforts for working towards living wages and incomes: ‘The Only Way is Up!’. The Food Lab is chairing several sessions at the conference on the topics of living wage for workers and living income for smallholder farmers. Stephanie Daniels will speak for…
Find out more »2019 Sustainable Agriculture Summit
Join Food Lab staff as they attend the Sustainable Agriculture Summit: Accelerating Progress, A Roadmap for Sustainable Agriculture. Hosted by six agricultural organizations representing America’s commodity crop, specialty crop, beef, dairy, pork and poultry industries, the Summit convenes the organizations’ collective membership of leaders from across the agricultural value chain. The summit will explore key drivers in defining and advancing sustainability across the industry, and surface innovative pathways and solutions to scale up our positive impact like never before. To learn…
Find out more »January 2020
Understanding Actual Incomes using the Household Economy Approach (HEA)
The Living Income Community of Practice, an organization co-facilitated by the Food Lab, will be hosting a webinar focusing on Living Income measurement. Living income benchmarks provide a tangible goal for the improvement of incomes, however measuring and understanding the current income situation of farmers remains a persistent challenge. Conceived in the humanitarian aid sector, the Household Economy Approach (HEA) provides a robust framework that could be leveraged for understanding actual incomes, and also offers potential for modelling farm economics to…
Find out more »February 2020
Closing the Income Gap: the use of technology to drive consumer action
As a co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab encourages partners to register for the upcoming webinar Closing the Income Gap: the use of technology to drive consumer action. The webinar will feature both Fairchain Foundation and TipMe on how they have used blockchain to deliver consumers with proof of impact as well as to explore how technology is used to influence consumer behaviour and turn products into an impact engine. Hear how they have put their…
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