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October 2019
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…
Find out more »March 2020
2020 Small Grains Conference
Join Food Lab partner Practical Farmers of Iowa, for their Annual Small Grains Conference. Located in Springfield, IL participants will learn about growing small grains, cover cropping and the benefits of an extended rotation. The conference has twelve breakout sessions throughout the day, including topics on integrating animals with a small grains operation, marketing small grains, the agronomy behind successfully raising small grains and more. To learn more about the conference visit PFI's website and if attending, make sure to…
Find out more »Closing the Coffee Living Income Gap
Join IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative and NewForesight as they discuss insights into the Living Income gap in coffee and innovative sourcing practices to close the gap. Across the coffee sector, many coffee producers and their families live well below recognized “living income” benchmarks. The long-term price of coffee in the futures market has remained roughly the same for the last 47 years, resulting in a significant decrease in farmers ́ purchasing power. The good news is there is massive…
Find out more »Regenerative Toolbox: How OpenTEAM Software Can Help Farmers Draw Down Emissions
Join our partners Climate Collaborative and Stonyfield Yogurt for a special March ROOTED Community session. Speakers from Stonyfield, the USDA, and Land PKS will discuss how OpenTEAM software knits together critical agricultural and climate-related software applications to create a powerful data-based, positive feedback loop that provides recommendations to speed up soil health and climate improvement on farms. A brief demonstration of certain aspects of the software will also be provided. OpenTEAM speakers will highlight how the software can be used…
Find out more »Sustainable Vanilla Initiative General Assembly
The 2020 Sustainability Vanilla Initiative (SVI) General Assembly is an opportunity for SVI members to review progress and challenges around sustainability in the natural vanilla market and plan strategy for the upcoming year. Contact [email protected] for more information. Due to limited facilities space, this event will be by invitation only. A summary of key points will be available after the assembly meets. Update 3.5.20: The event will now be held as an online conference.
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