Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture to Reduce Poverty

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Why Women Farmers Hold the Key to Fixing Our Broken Food Systems

Women farmers are central to fixing broken food systems, yet they remain excluded from the technologies, financing and markets needed to scale solutions. New research from CARE shows that reducing food loss and waste requires gender-responsive design, investment and partnerships. Empowering women farmers can strengthen food security, resilience and climate outcomes globally.
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Bridging Design and Scale: How AgriPath Connects Innovation in Digital Advisory Services to Sustainable Growth

Scaling digital advisory services (DAS) for smallholder farmers requires more than technology. AgriPath shows that sustainable growth depends on combining user-centred design with enabling ecosystems, viable business models and trusted community-based agents. By bridging innovation and scale, DAS can improve productivity, incomes and climate resilience across agricultural systems.
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Sustainability Standards and Small-Scale Producers: From Risk Management to Resilience

Sustainability systems must move beyond audits to meaningful engagement with small-scale producers. New guidance from ISEAL highlights how collaborative, participatory approaches can uncover root causes, strengthen resilience and improve outcomes. By recognising producers as partners and knowledge holders, businesses can build more effective, credible and regulation-ready supply chains.
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Partnering for Impact: Five Lessons for Organisations Ready to Champion Women Farmers

Strong partnerships are essential to building resilient, climate-smart supply chains. Drawing on ofi and GIZ’s multi-year collaboration, this article shares five practical lessons for empowering women farmers at scale. From aligning around shared challenges to designing inclusive, long-term programmes, it shows how partnership can unlock livelihoods, strengthen value chains and drive measurable impact.
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Understanding the First Mile: Strategies and Tools for First Mile Inclusion in Traceability and Due Diligence Systems

New research offers practical approaches to strengthening traceability and supporting smallholder inclusion at the start of agricultural supply chains. Jessica Fryer from ISEAL discusses the research findings and what this means for building resilient and inclusive supply chains.
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Supply Chain Resilience Starts with Household Resilience: What Other Sectors can Learn from Cocoa

Supply chain resilience begins at the household level. Drawing lessons from the cocoa sector in West Africa, this article explores how strengthening women’s financial inclusion, decision-making power and access to savings groups can stabilise farming families and reduce risks across global supply chains. When households become more resilient, companies gain stronger, more reliable and sustainable supply systems.
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Why Fairtrade Matters More Than Ever with Marike Runneboom de Peña

Listen in to this podcast episode to hear from Social Impact Pioneer Marike Runneboom de Peña, Interim CEO of Fairtrade International, about why this moment is a turning point for fair trade and global supply chains.
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Build Climate Resilience from the Ground Up By Investing in Agricultural Enterprises

Build Climate Resilience from the Ground Up By Investing in Agricultural Enterprises

As world leaders endorse the Belém Declaration on people-centred climate action, one truth is clear: farmer resilience must move from rhetoric to investment. This article explores why smallholder farmers receive less than 1% of climate finance, and how local agricultural enterprises offer the fastest, most scalable route to climate-resilient supply chains and global food security.
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Beyond Carbon: Enabling Livelihoods with Lilian, Ann, Olaf and Anna

Hear from Social Impact Pioneers: Anna Kilpatrick, Chief Strategy and Impact Officer at PUR, whose agroforestry projects help global companies decarbonise agricultural supply chains while improving smallholder incomes. Ann Vaughan, Associate Vice President for Resilient Futures at CARE, leading work to unlock climate finance that reaches 25 million people, especially women and girls. Olaf Westermann, Senior Technical Advisor on Climate Change and Agriculture at CRS, connecting conservation, livelihoods, and equity in nature-based carbon projects worldwide. And Lilian Gwazayo, Field Advisor, & Environmental Scientist, CARE, Malawi.
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Strengthening Supply Chains by Tackling Gender Inequality and the Climate Crisis

As world leaders gather at COP, Amanda Smith, Global Head of Social at Diageo, shares insights into Diageo and CARE’s shared ambition to build resilient supply chains by tackling gender inequality and climate vulnerability together.
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Putting People First in Climate Action: How Fair Finance is Building Resilience Across East Africa

As climate change intensifies, Shared Interest supports farmers in East Africa with fair finance and training to build local resilience. From vegetable producers in Rwanda to coffee growers in Uganda, the focus is on community-led adaptation and climate-smart farming. Putting people at the centre of climate action is key to sustainable, inclusive progress.
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Agroecology: The Pathway to Sustainable Food Systems

Agroecology is a powerful pathway to climate-resilient, sustainable food systems. Brenda Huerta of Fairtrade International explores how soil health, biodiversity, and farmer agency are interconnected, highlighting successful examples from banana cooperatives in Latin America. As COP30 approaches, she calls for bold investment in agroecology as a foundation for social justice, environmental regeneration, and resilient livelihoods.
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Building Prosperity from the Ground Up: Helping Farmers Thrive

This article explores how smallholder cotton farmers can build long-term prosperity through traceability, climate resilience, and inclusive supply chains. Highlighting CottonConnect’s approach—from regenerative farming to digital tools—it makes the case that empowering farmers is essential to global sustainability. When farmers thrive, businesses prosper—and prosperity becomes a shared outcome.
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Views from the Global Goals Summit on Business Fights Poverty’s New Report: Making the Five Bridges to 2045 a Reality

At this year’s Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit, a number of sessions turned their attention to the launch of our new Five Bridges to 2045: How Business Can Build a Fairer, More Resilient Future. Eighteen experts from our global network took part in online sessions and an in-person event hosted with Barclays in New York, where representatives from Ikea, Natura, Vodafone Foundation, ABF Sugar and Fundación Paraguaya shared their perspectives on how to bring the report’s vision of embedding social impact and sustainability into core business closer to reality.
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The Power of Participatory Radio with Hannah and Meshack

The Power of Participatory Radio with Hannah and Meshack

Listen to this podcast conversation to learn about The Power of Participatory Radio. Social Impact Pioneers – Meshack Kitungu Kawinzi and Hannah Davis share how one of the world’s oldest and most trusted communication tools, radio, is being harnessed to change lives and strengthen communities.
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Reducing Child Labour in Palm Oil: A Model for Business-NGO Collaboration

A pioneering partnership between Planting Naturals, APT Action on Poverty, and MAPCO has reduced child labour by 70% in Sierra Leone’s palm oil sector. By combining ethical sourcing, community-led development, and inclusive finance, this collaboration shows how businesses and NGOs can drive sustainable change through shared responsibility and grassroots engagement.
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Trust, Transparency and Impact: How Credibility Offers Vital Solutions to the World’s Most Pressing Problems

Credibility is the key to unlocking crucial sustainability impacts. Embedding trust and confidence, credible sustainability systems help governments and businesses address today’s most urgent challenges. Patrick Mallet, ISEAL’s Innovations Director, explains what credibility is and why it’s so important.
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Our Path to Sustainability Must Include Women: Lessons from Cotton Farming and Climate Resilience

Women play a vital yet often overlooked role in agriculture and climate resilience. CottonConnect CEO Alison Ward highlights how women cotton farmers are disproportionately impacted by climate change—and why they must be central to sustainability strategies. Through education, training, and recognition, women can lead transformative climate action from the ground up.
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When Opportunity Knocks: Three Keys for Creating Inclusive Growth through Sales-Agent Models

Sales agent models have the potential to improve access to goods and services while creating economic opportunity for women and youth. Drawing on work from Rwanda and Mozambique, TechnoServe’s Sophie Duchanoy and Sarah Bove share three key factors in making these approaches work.
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Businesses and NGOs Partner to Help Smallholder Farmers Tackle the Intersections

How can businesses and NGOs partner to help smallholder farmers tackle the intersections of climate change and gender inequality? Hosted with Diageo This Insights
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