We are pleased to announce our full-day, in-person Living Income Summit on the 14 June, in Amsterdam at the Hermitage. The purpose of the Living Income Summit is to…
Individual action and collaboration critical to closing living income gaps
Poverty has been a reality in supply chains for generations. An inadequate portion of the value generated by global commodities makes its way to the smallholder farmers producing cacao, coffee,…
New partnership charts course towards prosperous incomes
ICO & IDH team up on increasing incomes for smallholder coffee farmers A sustainable coffee sector is one that can assure fair distribution of value across the value chain. A…
In-person event, London (UK) 4 & 5 April 2022 During the Responsible Sourcing and Ethical Trade Forum organized by the Innovation Forum, IDH will talk…
Global group of investors endorses IDH’s living income and living wage roadmaps
During a webinar hosted by IDH on Living Income, a large group of investors from around the globe, with an AUM of 6.3 trillion Euro, has issued an endorsement of…
We are living a new reality. Last week, as I returned from my first visit to the African continent since the beginning of the pandemic, I arrived in what felt…
How Private Sector Development Strategies contribute to closing living income gaps
Authored by Iris van der Velden, IDH Director of Learning and Innovation, with insight from IDH Roadmap on Living Income and Farmfit Intelligence center. Taking action to close…
IDH initiated the Farm and Cooperative Investment Programme (FCIP) with the government of Cote d’Ivoire (Le Conseil du Café Cacao) in 2017 to improve cooperative investment and farmer prosperity. As…
IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative and Fairtrade sign global partnership for fair economic conditions
Fairtrade and IDH – the Sustainable Trade Initiative have signed a partnership to accelerate joint work towards enabling living wages and income in food supply chains. Based on the belief…
NKG BLOOM Lays the Foundation for Living Income in coffee
Neumann Kaffee Group began the roll out of their NKG BLOOM program in 2017 targeting smallholder coffee farmers looking to maximize the potential of their coffee plots and increase their…