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Increased RSPO certification for Asia
Solidaridad’s Palm Oil Producer Support Initiative aims to reach thousands of smallholders and plantation workers in Central and Latin America,…
20 August 2014
Solidaridad gives China ‘Plus’ on CSR move
Beijing, China: More than 450 delegates and stakeholders attended China’s largest Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) conference. The conference took place…
Netherlands highlights plight of small-scale miners
Good Gold’ gaining ground globally Last Friday in Utrecht, The Netherlands Film Festival presented awards to the country’s top actors,…
Transformation of Asian tea markets
Solidaridad Asia and its partner Business Watch Indonesia have set a target of covering 50 percent of all smallholders under…
Sustainable Palm Oil: The journey of Keresa Plantations
Two years ago, the Sarawak-based Keresa Plantations in Malaysia started their mission to obtain certification in sustainable palm oil (RSPO).…
A decade of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – A personal journey
Marieke Leegwater is palm oil programme manager at Solidaridad. She visited nearly all RSPO meetings in the last ten years,…
It is mainly companies that can realize sustainable and responsible production of food
The consumer is not enforcing sustainability Pressure from the consumer on the business world to put sustainably produced foods in…
Round Tables: Working together towards sustainable supply chains
More and more companies work together with non-governmental organizations, like Solidaridad to improve the social and environmental supply chains of…
Tea Improvement Programme sets 2013 goals
Solidaridad led the Argentinian trade mission that attended the 3rd annual North American Tea conference held by the Tea Association of…
South America: New developments on training and certifying soy family farmers
Since 2009, Solidaridad South America has been working with more than 800 soy family farmers in South Brazil by supporting them…
