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April 2021
The Intersection between Climate Change and Coffee Digitalization
Join Digital Coffee Future in the second part of a three part series on Climate Change and Coffee Digitalization. Our own Patrick Lawrence will join other panelist to share information and experience demonstrating a positive intersection between “climate-smart” solutions in coffee production and digitalization. The goal behind this session is to present to the audience a very concrete perspective of how different tools have been developed, piloted, assessed, and integrated among different scenarios and contexts. Because the most important aspect…
Find out more »Due Diligence for Living Income
As co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP), we invite you to join us for the upcoming webinar Due Diligence for Living Income: How to address poverty and prosperity in supply chains in light of new EU legislation webinar. With the advances in the process for a new European Union Due Diligence Law on the Environment and Human Rights, there is growing debate regarding the scope of the human rights component. Given that the European Parliament debates have referenced…
Find out more »Cool Farm Alliance Annual Meeting
The Food Lab is happy to support the Cool Farm Alliance Annual Meeting. Taking place on April 28 and 29, the 2-day virtual event includes a members only day on April 28 and an open meeting on April 29. Our own Stephanie Daniels and Elizabeth Reaves will moderate sessions taking place on April 29. More information can be found below, including registration: Agriculture Fit for our Future—Solutions in Action 28-29 April, 2021 / 12:00 - 17:00 BST One year…
Find out more »May 2021
4C Online Seminar: Sustainable Coffee
Join our own Christina Archer during 4C's online seminar series: Sustainable Coffee-Tasting Good, Improving Lives. The May 12 event will focus on Sustainable Coffee, with Christina providing insight into Living income: the concept and current efforts in the coffee sector. Learn more about the event and register here.
Find out more »Spring 2021 Living Income Workshop
The Food Lab is happy to share the Spring 2021 Living Income Workshop: EMPOWERING ACTION TOWARDS IMPROVING LIVING INCOME. Co-hosted with our partners GIZ and ISEAL, join us in this multi-sector event that counts on experts from around the globe to discuss how to advance proactively towards a decent standard of living for smallholders. During our May workshop we will focus on supporting you in your journey towards measuring and conceptualising a living income approach. It will also provide space to…
Find out more »June 2021
Business Fights Poverty Global Summit
Join Sustainable Food Lab staff as they engage in the Business Fights Poverty Global Summit #RebuildBetter. Taking place from June 21-25, each day the summit will explore different themes - Leadership, Gender, Livelihoods, Climate and Partnership. Book your free seat: https://businessfightspoverty.org/global-summit-2021/
Find out more »July 2021
Living Income State of Play: Workshop Takeaways and Agricultural Sector Perspectives
Join the Living Income Community of Practice, co-facilitated by the Sustainable Food Lab, for a State of Play webinar. This webinar will present a brief summary of the key takeaways from the Spring Living Income Workshop held on May 19th 2021. We will reflect on some of the key practical points made by speakers in choosing the most effective approach to measuring income, sector advancements across a range of commodities, and discuss what a Living Income approach means for different people…
Find out more »Living Income in Smallholder Cotton Production
Join the Living Income Community of Practice, co-facilitated by the Sustainable Food Lab, for a webinar on Smallholder Cotton Production. In this webinar, we will examine pricing mechanisms in the African small-scale cotton sector and explore possibilities to improve farmer income and productivity through an enabling environment. Finally, we'll examine the gap between the actual income and a living income in the cotton sector. Register for the webinar here.
Find out more »September 2021
Achieving Fair Prices and Living Incomes in Global Value Chains through Public Policies in Europe
The Food Lab is happy to share the Fair Trade Advocacy Office’s upcoming webinar: ACHIEVING FAIR PRICES AND LIVING INCOMES IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS THROUGH PUBLIC POLICIES IN EUROPE. The event will start with a very interesting presentation by Ruud Bronkhorst, on the basis of his book The Economics of Human Rights: Using the Living Income/Fair Price Approach to Combat Poverty. In the second part, we will discuss the different ways that EU member states and the EU can contribute to living incomes…
Find out more »October 2021
Virtual Fall Living Income Workshop
Join the Food Lab, co-facilitator of the Living Income Community of Practice, for the upcoming Virtual Fall Living Income Workshop. Taking place October 4-6, short sessions will provide opportunities for those new to the concept and those practitioners who are well versed in the methodology. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in severe economic and social disruption, challenging public health, food systems and affecting lives and livelihoods of millions of producers. Added to that, the most vulnerable are at the greatest…
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