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The Grounds for Sharing: A study of value distribution in the coffee industry
With over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed globally every day, the international coffee market generates substantial and growing value.…
18 June 2024
Solidaridad, Rainforest Alliance, Fair Trade Advocacy Office, and Fairtrade Publish new paper on making the EU’s Due Diligence Directive Inclusive and Effective.
The NGOs and CSOs Solidaridad, Rainforest Alliance, Fair Trade Advocacy Office, and Fairtrade have just published their latest paper “Supporting…
23 April 2024
Growing the future: Lessons from Climate Smart Agriculture
Building on lessons from more than nine years working in climate-smart agriculture (CSA), Solidaridad releases this case study that considers…
20 March 2024
ASSESSING RESPONSIBLE PURCHASING PRACTICES
There is a growing consensus among companies, civil society organisations, trade unions, and public authorities that suboptimal purchasing practices can…
07 February 2024
Mid-term review of RECLAIM Sustainability! programme
In 2023, Solidaridad and partners Fairfood, TrustAfrica and Business Watch Indonesia commissioned the mid-term review of our joint RECLAIM Sustainability!…
29 January 2024
Empowering cooperative partners for an inclusive future driven by data
This new paper with Fairfood explores the impacts of our joint project in the coffee value chain in Uganda. Piloting…
22 January 2024
PRESS RELEASE: THE EU IS MAKING DUE DILIGENCE MANDATORY, NOW IT’S TIME TO MAKE IT MEANINGFUL
Today marks a significant milestone as a political agreement was successfully concluded on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).…
14 December 2023
New Policy Paper: Due Diligence and the risk of Disengagement
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is currently being negotiated by the European institutions. This long-awaited piece of legislation…
11 December 2023
Financing Resilience for Small-scale Farmers
As the world converges at COP28 with a heightened focus on nature, people, and livelihoods in climate action, the time…
05 December 2023
Cotton and Climate Paper
The new paper on Cotton and Climate, hosted on the Sustainable Cotton Hub, reveals that within the foreseeable future almost…
23 November 2023