Regional Inclusive Improvement
Inclusive Improvement: Standards and Smallholders
Millions of smallholder families in tropical commodity chains can double their income through improved management (specifically to enhance waste recycling), through better control over green house gas emission (through regular methane production and composting), through decreasing external inputs and through a focus on improving product quality. This book argues that combining sustainable development and poverty reduction is feasible. But it requires efforts of such magnitude that all parties...Inclusive Improvement (5 June)
Hivos has been at the forefront of emerging intervention practices in the market approach for many years, moving from Fair Trade (since 1985) to Organic (since 1989) to micro-credit (since 1994) to Coffee Coalition (since 1999) to ISEAL (since 2001) to mainstreaming market access for smallholders (since 2004). This latest challenge has brought Hivos to showcase attempts to combine upgrading of quality and inclusion of smallholders in attractive market channels. The draft report of these colle...› read more...
Tags: Small Producers Agency
Date: 5 June : Location: ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tags: Small Producers Agency
Date: 5 June : Location: ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, The Netherlands