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• Barry Callebaut, IFC, and IDH partner to provide credit for ‘productivity packages’ to farmers and co-operatives

  Making cocoa farming more sustainable and profitable for farmers. USD 24 million benefits generated to smallholders as a result of  investments Reaching 103,000 farmers by 2020/21 season 23% expected income…

  Barry Callebaut, IFC, and IDH partner to provide credit for ‘productivity packages’ to farmers and co-operatives

• Collective Bargaining Agreement between TAML and PAWU

  The first ever Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Tea Association of Malawi and The Plantation and Allied Workers Union has been signed, the Malawi Tea 2020 programme Steering Committee is…

  Collective Bargaining Agreement between TAML and PAWU

• First landscape projects starting in April in Lam Dong and Dak Lak

  Following a successful call for proposals in the first quarter of 2016, the ISLA team in Vietnam is preparing to implement the first projects later this month. In December 2015,…

  First landscape projects starting in April in Lam Dong and Dak Lak

• Rotterdam joins STTC

  The city of Rotterdam has committed itself to the European Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) to stimulate the usage of sustainable tropical timber. Rotterdam is the 3rd…

  Rotterdam joins STTC

• IDH signs statement of support for the Agreement Sustainable Garment and Textile

  IDH is a supporting organization to the Agreement Sustainable Garment and Textile, an agreement on international responsible business conduct in the garment and textile sector. Some of IDH Apparel programs (SAC…

  IDH signs statement of support for the Agreement Sustainable Garment and Textile

• Tropical forest? Use it or lose it!

  IDH has written a chapter on the value of sustainable tropical forest management for the book: ‘Central African Forests Forever’. Central African Forests Forever is a book…

  Tropical forest? Use it or lose it!

• Launch of the IDH Farm & Co-op Investment Program

  The IDH Farm and Co-op Investment Program builds upon the momentum in Cote d’ Ivoire to develop sustainable business models for medium and long term financial solutions. Existing organizations…

  Launch of the IDH Farm & Co-op Investment Program

• Norway partners with IDH to conserve forests

  Today NORAD (The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) signed an agreement with IDH to support ISLA in three countries to help delink commodity production from deforestation. The agreement involves funding…

  Norway partners with IDH to conserve forests

• Norway endorses Amsterdam Palm Oil Declaration

  Norway Prime Minister Erna Solberg declared governmental support to the Commitment to Support 100% Sustainable Palm Oil in Europe today at the Oslo REDD Exchange by signing the Amsterdam Palm…

  Norway endorses Amsterdam Palm Oil Declaration

• Higher yields, income & leaf quality

  In Malawi some 70 Farmer Field Schools are now up and running, led by a total of 38 facilitators with a total number of 2115 farmers taking part in the…

  Higher yields, income & leaf quality

• Barry Callebaut and IDH partner to implement innovative cocoa sustainability programs

  Barry Callebaut and IDH have signed an MoU to start programs to improve sustainability of cocoa and livelihoods of cocoa farmers (including farmer finance, gender, nutrition, landscape protection and crop…

  Barry Callebaut and IDH partner to implement innovative cocoa sustainability programs

• FSI present at IFTEX in Kenya

  At the 5th edition of IFTEX, the International Floriculture Trade Expo in Nairobi Kenya, FSI members based in East Africa met and discussed the new round of projects with those…

  FSI present at IFTEX in Kenya

• International market support for Mato Grosso’s Produce, Conserve and Include Plan

  The government of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, and IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, signed a partnership agreement in May 2016 to mark the cooperation between the government of…

  International market support for Mato Grosso’s Produce, Conserve and Include Plan

• Coffee National Sustainability Curriculum approved for the World Bank’s Vietnam Agriculture Project

  Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Dr. Le Quoc Doanh, approved National Sustainability Curriculum (NSC) as official extension documents for all farmer trainings… The Vice-Minister of Agriculture and…

  Coffee National Sustainability Curriculum approved for the World Bank’s Vietnam Agriculture Project