Past Events

The Food Lab is happy promote WBCSD's upcoming webinar focusing on food loss & waste (FLW) and featuring our own Daniella Malin and Emily Shipman. One third of food produced is never consumed: this represents 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and a quarter of the water used in agriculture, as well as crop-land the size of China. On-farm losses account for more than 520 million tonnes of all FLW worldwide, equivalent to nearly 8 percent of all food…

The complex challenges of today – such as inequality, environmental changes, financial instability, etc. – can’t be tackled by any one organization, but require the collaborative effort of many. What is needed are open spaces that bring the relevant participants together, provide them with the tools and methodology to guide them through an experimental process for them to understand the issues they face and start to collaboratively build new solutions.  In this live discussion hosted by Social Innovation, our own…

This is the 3rd webinar in a 3-part series hosted by the Living Income Community of Practice, aimed to empower standard systems to play a role in advancing living incomes. During this webinar we'll explore challenges and discuss issues such as how to integrate living income indicators in M&E. To register for the upcoming webinar please follow this link. The previous webinars can be found here.

As co-facilitators of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab is happy to invite partners to the 2nd Virtual Living Income Workshop.  Originally planned in April as a 2-day in-person event, the Workshop is now open to all participants who are interested in learning more about Living Income. This workshop provides opportunities for learning about the concept of living income and the design and implementation of income improvement programs through experiences from sectors such as rubber and palm…

Learn how Cooperative Coffees, with the help of project partners, is implementing the Cool Farm Tool with coffee-farmer cooperatives in Peru, Honduras and Guatemala.  Their pilot project aims to: assess net carbon sequestration in coffee farmer fields; illustrate how coffee, when organically cultivated as an agroforestry system, can function as a climate change solution; and, encourage collaboration in the face of our collective "climate crisis" across the coffee supply chain. During the webinar, you can expect to meet the project team,…

As co-facilitators of the Living Income Community of Practice, the Food Lab is happy to invite partners to the 3rd Virtual Living Income Workshop.  Originally planned in April as a 2-day in-person event, the Workshop is now open to all participants who are interested in learning more about Living Income. This third workshop explores strategies that support living income for smallholder farmers. Achieving living incomes is about more than just what buyers pay. It’s also about enabling farmers to improve yields…

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…