Success Stories in Food System Transformation

• Developing Rwandan horticulture by linking local producers to global market

  With the HortInvest project, IDH joined a consortium of multiple organizations and private sector companies to further develop the horticulture sector in Rwanda. As the demand for high value crops…

  Developing Rwandan horticulture by linking local producers to global market

• Integrated Pest Management project to support sustainable vegetable farming in Ethiopia

  IDH and the Pesticide Action Network (PAN-UK) have started implementing a project to support healthy, sustainable and productive vegetable farming in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. About 600 households…

  Integrated Pest Management project to support sustainable vegetable farming in Ethiopia

• Brazil: IDH and partners start engaging cattle ranchers in sustainable beef production

  On 18-20 September, IDH and its partners started engaging cattle ranchers in the Araguaia Valley, northeast Mato Grosso state in Brazil, in the recently launched Sustainable Production of Calves program…

  Brazil: IDH and partners start engaging cattle ranchers in sustainable beef production

• Stories from the tea field

  In collaboration with IDH, trustea has been driving sustainability in the Indian tea industry. To gain insights into the impact the program has on the factories, gardens,…

  Stories from the tea field

• IDH highlights role of landscapes approach in conserving South West Mau Forest in Kenya

  IDH and the Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes (ISLA) Kenya partners hosted a discussion forum and exhibition at the 2018 Global Landscapes Forum in Nairobi on 29-30 August, to highlight the…

  IDH highlights role of landscapes approach in conserving South West Mau Forest in Kenya

• Green Cocoa Landscape Program launched in Cameroon

  On 6 September, IDH organized an inception meeting for the coalition. More than 35 participants attended from government, industry and civil society to discuss the challenges and areas that can…

  Green Cocoa Landscape Program launched in Cameroon

• IDH e parceiros continuam avançando na implementação de Pactos Regionais no Mato Grosso e Pará

  The IDR and its implementing partners, Natcap and Imazon (Institute of Man and the Environment of the Amazon Region), have advanced with the implementation of the…

  IDH e parceiros continuam avançando na implementação de Pactos Regionais no Mato Grosso e Pará

• Engajamento e mobilização de produtores são essenciais para o avanço do programa “Produção Sustentável de Bezerros”

  A transformação de mercados no sentido de alcançar produção, comércio e consumo mais sustentáveis passa necessariamente pela construção de parcerias público-privadas entre empresas inovadoras, produtores, organizações da sociedade civil e…

  Engajamento e mobilização de produtores são essenciais para o avanço do programa “Produção Sustentável de Bezerros”

• IDH participa de encontro do Programa Municípios Sustentáveis em Lucas do Rio Verde (MT)

  A IDH – Iniciativa para o Comércio Sustentável marcou presença no 2º Circuito do Programa Mato-Grossense de Municípios Sustentáveis (PMS) em Campo, realizado em Lucas do Rio Verde (MT), no…

  IDH participa de encontro do Programa Municípios Sustentáveis em Lucas do Rio Verde (MT)

• 1º Fórum Anual do Cacau discute produção sustentável com presença da IDH

  On May 21, the IDH – Sustainable Trade Initiative participated in the 1st Annual Cocoa Forum held in the auditorium of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock…

  1º Fórum Anual do Cacau discute produção sustentável com presença da IDH

• Desafios da gestão territorial sustentável: refletindo e compartilhando ideias

  Nos dias 23 e 24 de agosto, a equipe da IDH – Iniciativa para o Comércio Sustentável se reuniu com o Imazon e a NatCap, parceiros implementadores dos Pactos Regionais.

  Desafios da gestão territorial sustentável: refletindo e compartilhando ideias

• Helping farmers in Tanzania benefit from boosting tea production

  The average income of tea farmers in Mufindi, Tanzania rose by 56% over the past four years, enabling better living conditions for 1400 small scale farmers. The project, called he…

  Helping farmers in Tanzania benefit from boosting tea production

• Rainforest Alliance and Olam are improving cocoa forest landscape corridor to sustain the agricultural livelihoods of communities

  Transforming lives and our forest require lasting partnerships. Rainforest Alliance and Olam Ghana are working closely with Partnership for Forest, the Ghana Cocoa Board and the Forestry Commission to demonstrate…

  Rainforest Alliance and Olam are improving cocoa forest landscape corridor to sustain the agricultural livelihoods of communities

• 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…

  Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana release Implementation plans of the Cocoa and Forests Initiative