Tagged with "Food Crops & Ingredients"

• Giving banana workers a decent standard of living

  IDH is working towards living wages in the banana sector, supporting specific interventions in Ghana and Ecuador and in Costa Rica and Belize. Employment in the export sector promises a…

  Giving banana workers a decent standard of living

• Dutch consumer organization acknowledges Sustainability Initiative of Fruits and Vegetables

  The Dutch consumer organization, Consumentenbond, published its report today about the sustainability of fruit and vegetables in supermarkets in the Netherlands. According to the Consumentenbond, supermarkets are…

  Dutch consumer organization acknowledges Sustainability Initiative of Fruits and Vegetables

• Food products sector boosts sustainability in production chain

  The parties in the Dutch food products sector are joining forces to ensure responsible business conduct in the international production chain. Today, they signed the International Responsible Business Conduct (IRBC)…

  Food products sector boosts sustainability in production chain

• Transitioning 6 million farmers to zero budget natural farming

  IDH India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS) – a not-for-profit established by the Andhra Pradesh government to support the transition of 6 million farmers…

  Transitioning 6 million farmers to zero budget natural farming

• The launch of the BOHESI Training Manual in Ecuador

  The BOHESI training manual was officially launched by the Ecuadorian Minister of Labor, Raul Clemente Ledesma Huerta, the Ecuadorian Minister of Agriculture, Rubén Flores, together with representatives from the World…

  The launch of the BOHESI Training Manual in Ecuador

• Reducing environmental impact in the flowers sector

  With increasing attention on the impacts of agrochemical use in the global production of flowers, and broader market demands for improved environmental practices, the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI) is taking…

  Reducing environmental impact in the flowers sector

• Living wage: discussions with banana producers in Costa Rica

  With draft figures from the living wage benchmark study in Costa Rica now available, the IDH banana project has moved to the next step: calculating the current wages associated with…

  Living wage: discussions with banana producers in Costa Rica

• A success story from a pepper province – Dak Lak, Vietnam

  A project to develop a sustainable pepper supply chain has greatly surpassed its set goal in the Dak Lak province in Vietnam. In total 341 households got Rainforest Alliance (RA)…

  A success story from a pepper province – Dak Lak, Vietnam

• Business Case for Spices Production & Processing

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  Business Case for Spices Production & Processing

• Creating value from farm to fork: from Guatemala to Sweden

  Over the past two years, IDH, Nature’s Pride and ICA Sweden have collaborated to pilot an innovative model to include smallholder farmers in the Nature’s Pride – ICA vegetable value…

  Creating value from farm to fork: from Guatemala to Sweden