Past Events

On 22 April, 2020, SDSN Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems hosted the webinar A Living Income for Cocoa Farmers. The webinar was part of SDSN’s 24-hour webinar celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by exploring the SDGs through the lens of well-being and happiness.  Our own Stephanie Daniel's talked about Living Income, its importance and how Living Income Community of Practice is moving the ball forward.   To read a recap and listen to the webinar view this webpage.

Join our own Stephanie Daniels for a GCP Webinar.  In collaboration with the Brazil Country Platform, partners InPACTO and Cecafé we'll be talking about pre-competitive joint action between companies and organizations, and how they can make a significant difference to the social well-being of workers and the positive effects this could have on coffee production in Brazil. Guest speakers include: - Mércia Silva - InPACTO - Michelle Bhattacharyya - On-Up - Stephanie Daniels - Sustainable Food Lab This interactive webinar will…

Our very own Elizabeth Reaves will be presenting as part of a webinar series hosted by Yale's Center for Business and the Environment.  The webinar: Driving More Sustainable Agricultural Practices at Scale: Harnessing the Market Power of the World's Largest Food Companies, will focus on the Food Lab's work with multinational food & beverage companies and the small actions needed from powerful companies that can achieve impacts at massive scale. Registration for the webinar is available here and more information about the webinar can…

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,…