Theme: Climate
Coffee and cocoa farmers respond to climate change with agroforestry
The Climate Heroes project aims to improve farmers’ resilience to a changing climate by providing technical support, access to finance,…
16 May 2023
Rural Extension & Technical Support Services Show Potential For Reducing Deforestation in Brazil
A new study from Solidaridad in Brazil demonstrates the importance of education – in the form of rural extension and…
20 March 2023
Five urgent steps to make the EU’s deforestation regulation work
Solidaridad’s Senior EU Policy Advisor Gert van der Bijl shares the essential steps that the EU, governments and companies need…
13 February 2023
Bottom UP! is designed to help Ethiopian factories improve their environmental and ethical standards by developing sustainable and equitable production…
12 January 2023
Sustainability Initiatives Will Fail Until Companies Pay More for Cocoa, says new report
Endemic sustainability issues within global cocoa supply chains, including child labour and deforestation will continue unless efforts are coupled with…
07 December 2022
COP27: Some Achievements, Glaring Omissions & Priorities Going Forward
COP27 concluded with a stronger commitment to countries that have contributed the least to climate change, but fell short of…
23 November 2022
Effective climate finance needed now for locally-led action that builds farmer resilience
Smallholder farmers are among those most affected by the impacts of climate change; at the same time, they play an…
07 November 2022
Carbon Balance in Soybean Production in Matopiba
A significant part of the soybean production in Brazil takes place in the Matopiba region, within the Cerrado savannas, including…
14 October 2022
Coffee Sustainability: Kenya’s Looming Crisis Amidst the Soaring Cost of Production
Over half a million Kenyan smallholder farmers are farming coffee. But they only produce 2 to 3 kilograms of cherry…
30 September 2022
LandScale: Assessing sustainability for everyone in the landscape
There are several sustainability schemes that specifically address the production or transformation units of a product, however, measuring the impacts…
28 September 2022
