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Rio+20 crowd to learn from practical sustainable development work for farmers and environment

The UN Summit on Sustainable Development brings tens of thousands of people together to discuss the future we want, but…

21 August 2014

Rio+20: A missed opportunity?

After two weeks of a plethora of events and meetings, the Rio Earth Summit ended amid disappointment and divisions. The…

India Cotton Programme bags BCI prize

Thousands of farmers in India benefit from Solidaridad and its implementing partners’ cotton programmes Istanbul, Turkey: The Solidaridad Cotton Solution…

First smallholders from India to be certified for Responsible Soy

With the Netherlands being the second highest importer of soybean in the world, mainly as animal feed, companies have taken…

Indonesia launches first RSPO certified cooking oil

Global output for certified palm oil is expected to increase way above the current 10% or 4.5 million tonnes in…

CONO helps to improve agricultural practices in India

The first global certification of Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) was recently awarded to farmers in India. This comes after…

20 August 2014

West Africa: First Aid training for small scale miners in Ghana

Over 1 million people are engaged in small scale mining of gold, diamond and quarry industries in Ghana. In the…

Report: Action Plan for “Sumangali Scheme” in India

The textile and clothing industry in India employs over 35 million people and much of the country’s production occurs in…

India: New step towards more sustainable sugar

Solidaridad and businesses in India are making progress in producing more sugar that has been certified by the Bonsucro standard,…

Major breakthrough in producing responsible soy in China

Large soy farms in China will start working together with Solidaridad towards the first responsibly produced soy in China. It…