Climate Smart Coffee Website Launched
The USAID Feed the Future Learning Community for Supply Chain Resilience is happy to share the launch of a new website aimed to provide coffee companies with the resources they…
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Olam and IITA Join Forces to Help Ugandan Coffee Farmers Build Long-Term Climate Resilience
Looking to ensure that coffee farmers continue to invest in coffee in ways that enable them to grow production and quality in the face of climate change, Olam, a global…
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Practical Tools Needed for Implementation of Climate Smart Cocoa
The cocoa industry has taken bold steps to preventing deforestation in the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), a public private collaboration between 33 cocoa and chocolate companies (85% of the…
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Cool Farm Tool Grows in Coffee
One of the Sustainable Food Lab’s flagship project, the Cool Farm Tool, is reaching new fields and farms. Since 2008 the Tool’s mission has enabled millions of growers around the…
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Webinar: Lessons Learned: Two Years of Small Grains in the Corn Belt
As part of our Small Grains in the Corn Belt initiative, Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) and the Food Lab are asking the questions: Can farmers be profitable when adding…
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Food Lab Member AB InBev tackles Climate-Smart Awareness in Uganda’s Grain Sector
The Sustainable Food Lab has worked with the beverage company AB InBev and its Uganda subsidiary Nile Breweries to explore ways to increase the resilience of small-scale grain farmers to…
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Vanilla can be a Profitable and Climate-Smart Crop for Smallholder Farmers
Don Seville, Executive Director of the Food Lab, is a facilitator of the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative (SVI), an industry initiative, which aims to promote the long-term stable supply of high quality,…
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U.S. Organic Grains Report
In collaboration with the Organic Trade Association, the Organic Grain Collaboration has co-authored a new report, titled “U.S. Organic Grain – How to Keep It Growing“. The report includes information on…
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Finding a Catalyst for Change in Agriculture- PODCAST
Elizabeth Reaves, our Senior Program Director of Agriculture and Environment, is featured in Our Farms, Our Future podcast produced by SARE exploring a catalyst for change in agriculture. Listen to Episode…
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Small Grains in the Corn Belt Newsletter- January 2019
Check out our latest Small Grains in the Corn Belt Newsletter which shares what we’ve been up to this past month. From a farmer conference to new modeling capabilities, we’ve…
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