Region: South America
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,…
20 August 2014
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…
Enhancing sugarcane sustainability in South America
In a joint effort to enhance sustainability initiatives and foster synergies between Solidaridad sugarcane partners in South America, project managers…
Raízen presents first results of Farmer Support and Loyalty Tool
A new specially designed software program helps farmers improve their business. It generates an individual recommendation report for improving practices…
Travel with Bibi van der Velden to the gold mines of Peru
Many people think that slavery is something from the time of the conquistadors and colonial domination in Africa. Unfortunately, slavery…
Testing New Tools for Halting Modern-Day Slavery at Gold Mines
Solidaridad has partnered with organizations in Peru and Colombia to test whether Solidaridad’s approach to supporting better practices can stop…
New programme for climate-smart agriculture in coffee
Solidaridad starts a new programme for climate-smart production of coffee. In recent years pilot projects showed interesting opportunities in the…
Brazil Farmers’ Union signs partnership to promote soybean certification
A Farmers’ Union that represents more than 1000 producers in the Western State of Bahia, in Brazil, signed a partnership…
South America: Uphill battle for responsible soy, as demand grows
Due to its high protein values and efficiency, soybean has become the number one source of protein for feeding cattle…
