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• 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

• Podcast: Cassava, the ‘insurance crop’ for improving livelihoods

  Listen to our latest podcast on cassava. Cassava, an edible root, is also known as the ‘insurance crop’ because it thrives in infertile soil and feeds millions of households…

  Podcast: Cassava, the ‘insurance crop’ for improving livelihoods

• 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

• Blog: Accelerating Production, Protection and Inclusion in the Cocoa Sector

  Bringing commitments to action for zero net deforestation. This blog piece originally featured on the TFA2020 website. A growing number of companies have joined the Consumer Goods Forum’s resolution…

  Blog: Accelerating Production, Protection and Inclusion in the Cocoa Sector

• 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

• Superunie calls the Sustainable Juice Covenant logical next step

  The buying cooperative that represents 13 independent retail organizations in the Netherlands joined the global initiative to make the sourcing of fruit juices sustainable. Cindy Verhoeven manager sustainable sourcing at…

  Superunie calls the Sustainable Juice Covenant logical next step

• Sustainable trade in a post conflict era

  Times that ministers from emerging economies came to visit Europe to ask for money are long gone. This week, the Colombian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Juan Guillermo Zuluaga…

  Sustainable trade in a post conflict era

• Unique farmer stories portrayed in latest report on the sustainable spices sector in India

  IDH published its latest report on the Sustainable Spices Initiative India (SSI-I). The report gives a good overview of the Indian spices sector and multiple projects that are currently taking…

  Unique farmer stories portrayed in latest report on the sustainable spices sector in India

• Podcast: Forest protection through sustainable livelihoods in Indonesia

  In Padang Tikar village, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, a ‘village forest’ scheme is helping communities protect their forest and increase their income by engaging in sustainable livelihoods. In this podcast,…

  Podcast: Forest protection through sustainable livelihoods in Indonesia

• Access to finance and gender equality for coffee farmers in Tanzania

  IDH has partnered with DAE ltd to facilitate producer organizations’ access to services and training. DAE ltd provides and distributes inputs on credit, traceability, training and creates market linkages to…

  Access to finance and gender equality for coffee farmers in Tanzania