Farming families, the cornerstone of sustainable cocoa
Boosting the sustainability of the cocoa sector has until now focused on working with smallholder cocoa farmers including farmer cooperatives which are largely dominated by men. Agricultural services, trainings and…
New resource: A look at IDH’s approach to building sustainable landscapes
How can we address deforestation, water depletion and other natural resource management issues while improving farmer and community livelihoods on a large scale? We must ensure that agricultural production is…
Prince Charles visits the Cocoa & Forests Initiative in Accra
A high level Cocoa & Forests Initiative meeting was organized to brief HRH the Prince of Wales on progress of the initiative, on the 5th of November in Accra. The…
IDH Farmfit provides new incentives for financial service providers to step into agricultural finance
Unlocking the USD 200 billion smallholder finance market The Mastercard Foundation Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab (the Lab) and IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) have joined forces…
This report estimates a living wage for the lower Volta River area of Ghana where bananas are produced for export. The living wage estimate in this report is based on…
Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana release Implementation plans of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative
The government of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and the companies involved in the chocolate and cocoa supply chain, have agree on a series of practical actions to implement the Joint Framework…
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…
5 reasons companies are collaborating to end deforestation
This blog was originally posted on GreenBiz. Agricultural and forestry commodities, such as soy, palm oil, beef, timber and cocoa, are some of the leading causes of rainforest destruction…