Sentences with word «smallholder»

COTAP's focus is on certified forestry projects which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers in least - developed countries who live on less than $ 2 per day.

To open day two of the summit, Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD, will highlight the role of smallholdings in the food industry.

use the demonstration farm for smallholder farmers from all over the country to come and learn about organic agriculture techniques.

To encourage land sparing in developing countries, help with enhancing yields should focus on smallholder farmers growing staple crops.

To combat these challenges, Rainforest Alliance is actively working with smallholder cocoa farmers to develop climate - smart agriculture techniques.

Her passion lies in researching, documenting and making the case for smallholder farming on the African continent.

Most of the bananas important for the food supply are grown by smallholder farmers in low - income countries and consumed locally.

The report provides important insights into the interplay between food security outcomes and climatic variables, and provides policy implications for targeted interventions to improve the productivity and the resilience of smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the face of climate change.

We are working with partners to develop and promote post-harvest loss reduction practices in major ingredients relevant to Kellogg by developing sustainable agriculture programs with smallholder farmers in India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Thailand, Philippines, and other countries that promote and improve post-harvest loss reduction.

Organisations can also purchase GreenPalm certificates directly from smallholder groups, further underlining their support and developing their own CSR programmes.

The scholarships program aims to support capacity building for women smallholder farmers by providing funding for agroecology scholarships.

With support from the Innovation Fund, the Sustainable Finance Initiative conducted market research and designed its Cocoa Rejuvenation Finance Project, a multi-phase, multi-partner sustainable cocoa finance project initiated in Côte d'Ivoire to help smallholder cocoa farmers gain access to long - term loans in order to rejuvenate their farms and boost yields.

But this project will make genomic selection available to the public sector, enabling smallholder farms to benefit from applications of the technology.

To secure key raw materials and support smallholder livelihoods, Mondelēz International will continue to invest and expand its signature Cocoa Life program to empower 200,000 cocoa farmers in six key origins.

Independent smallholders who do want to pursue sustainable palm oil production may find it prohibitively expensive.

Their farm in Kenya is part of the Momul tea factory agricultural cooperative, the first smallholder group in the country to undergo Rainforest Alliance certification (in 2009).

A professor of sustainability in Bogotá, Dr. Ximena Rueda talks about certification and the challenges facing smallholder coffee farmers.

The overall aim of the sustainable agriculture program is to upscale and embed sustainability into KTDA smallholder tea production.

This guidance document explains how smallholder livestock keepers, fisherfolks and pastoralists are among the most vulnerable to climate change.

Access to the TAL Code technology will enable IRRI to accelerate its on - going research into high - iron / high - zinc rice varieties and actively advance viable, rice sector - based solutions to global food and nutrition security issues, including making improved rice varieties available more quickly to smallholder rice farmers.

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.

For example, 81 % of the coffee in Nicaragua and El Salvador grew under a shade canopy in 1996, and although recent surveys document declines in shade tree diversity since then, these declines mostly occurred on larger farms; in contrast, many smallholder cooperatives preserve high levels of biodiversity, including more than 100 species of shade trees on fewer than 30 farms (Méndez et al. 2010a).

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.

Researchers from Wageningen University estimated that the upfront costs for independent smallholder certification — including all the necessary documents, trainings and audits — range from 16 to 39 per cent of farmers» mean annual incomes.

Cargill began the cocoa farmer training programme in Indonesia in 2013, to encourage sustainable agricultural practices among smallholder farmers and the farming community.

Modern yield - boosting technologies, as well as insurance policies, are beyond the reach of many smallholder farmers.

Agrobiodiversity and shade coffee smallholder livelihoods: A review and synthesis of ten years of research in Central America

«We want to get smallholders ready for sustainability certification.

A major new partnership has been announced to help African smallholders take control of their livelihoods in the face of the risks posed by climate change.

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.

Simon and Esther Langat are a husband and wife team whose farm in Kenya is part of the Momul tea factory agricultural cooperative, the first smallholder group to undergo Rainforest Alliance certification back in 2009.

Identifying vulnerabilities facing smallholder farmers due to climate change and building capacity at the community level for experimenting and finding adaptation measures

The Rainforest Alliance is training smallholder cocoa farmers to manage droughts, floods, and soaring temperatures.

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

Here we have an 8 1/2 acre smallholding with chickens and honey bees.

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).

Interested parties should contact Julia Majail, Smallholders Program Manager at the RSPO.

Applying this framework and tool to my project, I analyzed the environmental and economic cases for Ghanaian smallholder cocoa to diversify into oil palm.

When I was a child I spent many a happy week on a remote Cornish smallholding where I went to bed by candlelight and drew water from the well.

Development of new oil palm plantations, coupled with smallholders expanding their farms to meet the rising demand for palm oil, has resulted in significant deforestation.

Spurred by a booming economy and high demand from China, authorities across northern Laos encouraged smallholder rubber planting in the mid-2000s.

And some certified growers, particularly smallholders, don't have a certified mill nearby.

«Smallholders know about contamination, but they don't care,» Lakey says.

The document also provides special considerations to include smallholder farmers in the planning process.