Sentences with phrase «as smallholder»

It will also expand the company's sourcing operations in the Indonesian region, thus providing bigger market opportunities for small cocoa farmers, as smallholder farmers produce the vast majority of cocoa beans in Indonesia.

Julia Majail, Smallholders Program Manager at the RSPO, is keen to promote the RSSF to product manufacturers and retailers as well as smallholders because it represents a perfect opportunity for them to directly support a smallholder group to move towards RSPO certification:

Not exact matches

As a continuation of its ethical sourcing commitment, Starbucks will launch a pilot program with select coffee farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia and Rwanda to develop next - level data technology to log and share real - time information along the journey of coffee beans with the aim of driving positive impact to smallholder farmers within its supply chain.

Publicly funded institutional investors may be able to leverage private capital on a multiple of 4 to 5 for even smallholder investments basis by accepting as low as a 20 — 25 % first loss for being the junior equity partner in a stacked capital deal.

Defined as farmers with 50 hectares or less of land, smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$ 66 billion industry's oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world's sustainable palm oil.

The RSPO allocates 10 % of income generated by the trade of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO), as well as 50 % of surplus income, to the RSPO Smallholder Support Fund (RSSF).

Pornsiri Raknukul, who runs a farm of 16 hectares in Krabi province, Southern Thailand, is one of 160,000 palm oil smallholders who run farms certified as sustainable by industry association Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

Smallholders can apply for a maximum of $ 100,000 per year for agricultural training, conservation activities, social development, market access and organisational growth, as well as to cover the cost for auditing.

Much of this chocolate is organic more or less by default, as many smallholders, especially in the Pacific region, simply do not use agrochemicals.

Mr. Leu stated the importance of mainstreaming PGS, as majority of the world's farmers, over 90 %, are smallholder family farms who can not afford the cost of 3rd party certification to sell organic products on markets.

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

As a summer analyst with the Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Finance Initiative, I conducted a two - month investigation of crop diversification as an intervention strategy for smallholder cocoa farming in West Africa, with a focus on GhanAs a summer analyst with the Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Finance Initiative, I conducted a two - month investigation of crop diversification as an intervention strategy for smallholder cocoa farming in West Africa, with a focus on Ghanas an intervention strategy for smallholder cocoa farming in West Africa, with a focus on Ghana.

Project Drawdown defines women smallholders as: providing resources, financing, and training to women smallholder farmers around the world.

According to this vision, the Sustainable Agriculture Standard in its third draft 2016 version proposes a framework of requirements caring for a higher productivity with optimized farm inputs that will enable smallholders to increase their income, satisfy their essential needs and conserve natural resources on their farms rather than exploiting them as part of their income strategy.

As the world's largest chocolate company, Mondelēz International has seized the opportunity to lead transformative change in the cocoa supply chain with Cocoa Life, a $ 400 million investment to empower 200,000 smallholder farmers and create thriving cocoa communities in Côte d'Ivoire and five other cocoa origins.

Furthermore, UTZ works on the landscape - based adaptation planning project with Malawian tea smallholder farmers which will not only address the effects of climate change on tea, but also tackle such environmental impacts as land degradation, deforestation and availability of clean water.

Mr Rodrigo Ortiz spoke about the need to incentivise the private sector to innovate for the smallholder context, as often innovations are targeted at larger producers and inappropriate for smallholders.

Despite smallholder agriculture now taking center stage in international food security policy discussions there is a strong push within the CFS for promoting chemical agriculture and GMO's as the solution for smallholders despite the high suitability and affordability of organic agriculture for smallholders.

In fact, many multiple cropping systems, such as those developed by smallholders and subsistence farmers, even show higher yields in terms of total harvest per unit area.

Secondly, they want «resilient food production systems», which utilise ecological production methods, and are based on «a multitude of smallholder farmers, gardeners and small - scale fishers who produce local food as the backbone of the food system».

To do this we must give smallholder farmers the tools they need such as safe storage facilities so they are not forced to watch their harvested crops be eaten by pests or spoil in un-insulated sheds.

The Plan continues as a manifesto of good ideas and community and smallholder needs even though the federal government has abandoned the idea of a national food plan.

Policies that encourage production for export also prejudice smallholders as they discourage local production, and lucrative organic markets are captured by better - off medium - to large - scale farmers.

By meeting the needs of smallholder farmers and local and low - income consumers, PGS initiatives are poised to grow even more quickly as awareness of organic continues to grow globally.

While you may have no plans to build on your land, as time progresses and your smallholding expands you may wish to create additional buildings.

Prof. Abberton who spoke on behalf of IITA, said the partnership was important as it reflects the role the farm will play not only in terms of research addressing the needs of smallholder farmers but also in terms of training and capacity building.

«This is important as it reflects the role that this farm will play not only in terms of research addressing the needs of smallholder farmers but also in terms of training and capacity building.

The major advantage of this project is the availability of a large quantity of automatically obtained data, that any user will be able to interpret easily, since it is represented on simple maps; as well as the wireless transmission of the information from the smallholding.

The majority of pigs are kept by women in smallholder households, as part of the large informal sub sector, with limited access to technology information and services.

The Green Belt Movement is working closely with institutions such as the World Agroforestry Centre to improve the resilience of farming systems and livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers to current climate variability.

Today, CHAT has the option of rehoming neutered adult feral cats to outdoor homes such as farms, stables, smallholdings and even gardens.

We rehome feral cats to farms, stables, smallholdings and country gardens where they will have shelter and regular quality food in return for acting as a rodent patrol.

Particularly poor smallholder farmers have no means to absorb these risks as producers and are discouraged from planting.

Not only are emissions from agriculture much larger than previously estimated, but with weather records being set every month as regional climates adjust and reset, there is an urgent need for research that helps smallholder farmers adapt to the new normal,» said Frank Rijsberman, the CEO of the CGIAR consortium.

To fix that, Danone spearheaded the creation of two separate Livelihoods Funds, which «create mutual value for smallholder farmers, businesses and society as a whole.»

This technical document summarizes the output of three Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) workshops held to identify available data as well as to pinpoint data gaps that need to be filled in order to develop an organic agriculture methodology for the carbon market that would synergize with general development goals and also potentially benefit smallholders in poor countries.

«Double A are doing fantastic work with smallholders in their country, as well as playing a vital support role in the development of a Thai national forest certification system.»

Third, tree based agricultural systems often provide additional benefits such as fruits, fodder, fuelwood and timber and thereby diversifies the production system to buffer against weather related production losses and hence raise smallholder resilience against climate impacts (Nair et al..

In Thailand, the 2016 PEFC Collaboration Fund is supporting the country's stakeholders as they develop a certification system that responds to the needs of the country's smallholders, many of which grow trees outside forests, such as rubberwood.

It contains field reporting on: climate - related problems and threats such as desertification in Nigeria, soil salination in Senegal, and the lack of technical support available to smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe; the range of responses and solutions adopted by farmers and governments; and how livestock - raising communities in the Kenyan county of Turkana are facing up to one of the worst droughts in living memory.

«CSRD's activities are relevant to the U.S. government's commitment to building resilience of smallholder farmers and to ensure increased production, as well bolster country resilience,» said David Westerling, acting economic growth office director and Feed the Future team leader for the United States Agency for International Development's mission in Bangladesh.

Minimum tillage with biological nutrient recycling, as opposed to plowing and chemical fertilizers, could sequester 0.4 — 1.2 GtC / year [176] while conserving water in soils, building agricultural resilience to climate change, and increasing productivity especially in smallholder rain - fed agriculture, thereby reducing expansion of agriculture into forested ecosystems [177]--[178].

The couple, who held the passive house standard initially as a vague aspiration, bought a smallholding in 2008 and, during the lengthy planning application, the «opportunities to build to passive house designs economically and efficiently were increasing all the time, so we opted to go for fully passive», says Nick.

To date, less than 1 percent of independent smallholder farms are certified as sustainable under the ISPO and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world's largest association for ethical production of palm oil.

Among the many mitigation measures currently under development, some could provide new opportunities to hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers, pastoralists and forest dwellers, through their roles as sequesters of carbon, through the changes they can make in their land use and cultivation practices to reduce GHG emissions, and as small scale producers of clean energy.

As temperatures rise and the weather becomes more unpredictable, large areas of land will become unsuitable for smallholders» current agricultural practices.

This includes, for example: making sustainable, healthy diets the norm, with more fruit, veg and plant - based proteins; eliminating food wastage from farm to fork; reducing reliance on antibiotics in livestock farming; scaling up sustainable animal feed and aquaculture systems; improving smallholder livelihoods; and rolling out restorative agriculture approaches, such as agroecology, agroforestry and soil carbon farming.

I work as a Field Officer with an NGO based in Kenya which aims at training the smallholder farmers to help them improve their crop yields and maximize profit and still reduce hunger and poverty.