Past Events

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…

As co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab is happy to the invite partners to the upcoming webinar on implementing living income requirements in standard systems. The living income community of practice is committed to work with the standard systems community to explore how they can play a bigger role in measuring and strategizing to close the income gap. After two successful webinars in February and May, that introduced the concept and explored main challenges, this webinar will…

As co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP), we are excited to share the first webinar of the year: Living Income State of Play. This webinar will include a range of speakers from the cocoa, coffee, vanilla and other sectors to get caught up on major developments and open questions on the topic of living income. What is the current status of living income benchmarks in major producing regions? How is the topic of living income integrated into…