🌱 At the start of November 2024, we hosted the Living Income in Latin America Workshop: Towards a Prosperous Future, bringing together a diverse group of experts from NGOs, governments, practitioners, and business representatives. 🌎 This event - along with the accompanying learning journeys - was a unique opportunity to deepen engagement, foster collaboration, and share knowledge among stakeholders dedicated to advancing living income initiatives across Latin America. 🖇️ We have compiled key insights from the learning journeys and our two day workshop into a Learning Brief. It highlights valuable discussions and key takeaways from each session. ⬇️ Explore our Learning Brief to learn more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eGi6UMSi #LivingIncome #LivingIncomeinLatinAmerica #Sustainability #Smallholders
The Living Income Community of Practice
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Collectively building pathways to living income through common tools and global exchange
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The Living Income Community of Practice is an alliance of partners dedicated to the vision of thriving, economically stable, rural communities linked to global food and agricultural supply chains. The goal of this community is to support activities focused on improving smallholder incomes towards living incomes, aiming to enable smallholder farmers to achieve a decent standard of living. This community is a result of a partnership between The Sustainable Food Lab, GIZ and ISEAL.
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🌱 In November 2024, we hosted a workshop on Living Income in Latin America: Towards a Prosperous Future in Bogota, Colombia. This workshop brought together 80+ experts representing NGOs, governments, practitioners, and businesses, creating a dynamic platform for engagement and collaboration. 🌎 Our participants shared the various efforts across key sectors, banana, palm, cocoa, and coffee, with work focused on four primary strategies to closing the living income gap: - Production and quality - Prices and trading - Landscape and community development - Sector and government policy We've compiled these insights and initiatives on our website, showcasing the incredibly work driving progress across #LatinAmerica. ⬇️ Discover the different living income projects and work taking place in Latin America ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eNfrW7S2 Please reach out to us at [email protected] if you would like your work to be included in this. #LivingIncome #LivingIncomeinLatinAmerica #Smallholders #Sustainability
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☕ In this paper, Yuca Waarts from Wageningen University & Research and Yves-Pascal Suter and Piet van Asten from ofi explore the realities of #coffee farming households in Kenya and Vietnam. The paper introduces the concept of ‘#LivingIncome per working day’ and compares how much households in these countries earn for each day they spent on coffee production. ❓ Question: what value do you see in looking at return to household labour for coffee and other activities in designing policies and interventions? ⬇️ Access the paper here: ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eHmFiY-m
New insights: Return on household labour: a means to accelerate the path to a living income for smallholder coffee farming households Even with the current high coffee futures and likely also farmgate prices many households do not earn a living/prosperous income; reaching the poorest households remains a big challenge; support continues to be needed to increase both coffee and non-coffee income. Looking at the return to household labour and demand for labour in designing living income pathways is important. An under-researched area in the literature which we addressed through using two existing datasets (huge thanks to the data owners!). Comparing coffee farming households in Kenya and Vietnam (2020/2021) 👉 Huge differences between households both within a country but also between countries. - Households earning a living income: Vietnam: 45%, Kenya: 9% - Farm size: Vietnam: 1.1ha, Kenya: 0.7ha - Coffee yield GBE/ha: Vietnam: 2,200, Kenya: 500 - Household time spent on coffee: Vietnam: 34%, Kenya: 22% - Proportion of coffee income in household income: Vietnam: 86%, Kenya: 46% - Total number of days left for adults in the household for other activities than coffee, per year: Vietnam: 298, Kenya: 315 - Living income per working day benchmark: Vietnam: USD 11, Kenya: USD 12 - Return to household labour per day for households meeting the benchmark: Vietnam: USD 35, Kenya: USD 30 - Return to household labour per day for households NOT meeting the benchmark: Vietnam: USD 2, Kenya: USD 4 - Households meeting the living income per working day threshold: Vietnam: 89%, Kenya: 23% Towards much better coffee and non-coffee incomes. - Some farming households perform well, a large group has low earnings per year or low returns per day - The efficiency gap between the small group of high performers, who earn a living income and who produce most of the coffee, and the large most vulnerable group, who earn far from a living income and sell very small volumes, is likely to continue or increase without specific action - We should learn from the different situations of these households to design adequate living income pathways, together with such households. - The needs and possibilities of different household types need to be addressed, often with different approaches, so they will grow their incomes substantially, especially the poorest. - To increase household incomes, we need to look at how to increase return to household labour, while also addressing hidden unemployment in coffee production areas. Question: what value do you see in looking at return to household labour for coffee and other activities in designing policies and interventions? 👉 The link to our paper is in the comments. Yves-Pascal Suter Piet van Asten ofi Wageningen Economic Research The Living Income Community of Practice Michiel Kuit #livingincome
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🌱 The 2024 Living Income Update Report for Rural Cocoa-Growing Areas in Ghana provides updated income benchmarks. Adjusted for inflation, the current living income benchmarks is GHC 4,305 (USD 300) per month, highlighting the economic realities faced by cocoa farmers. Learn how these updates impact cocoa communities and explore pathways to income security for rural households. ⬇ Access the full report ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eubT9wZh #LivingIncome #Cocoa #Ghana
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The Final Living Wage & Income Lab of 2024 is Here! This year, agri-food stakeholders faced a whirlwind of regulatory changes. Just as the #EUDR gained traction, unexpected revisions surprised those who invested a lot of time and money to ensure compliance. Meanwhile, food companies around the world want to stay ahead and prepare for what the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (#CSDDD) may bring. 📊 Amid the uncertainty, one thing stands out: contextual #data is the key to building supply chain resilience. But going beyond compliance, can data integration also drive smarter, more efficient #supplychains while accelerating sustainability goals? Join The Living Wage Income Lab, hosted by Fairfood, on December 17th to explore these questions and share learnings from those testing this out, including: ✔️ Learnings from innovative projects funded by the German Due Diligence Fund, from GIZ’s Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI) ✔️ Practical approaches to aligning pricing models with sustainability with True Price and Impact Institute ✔️ Data-driven strategies for tackling environmental and social challenges at the farm level, with Akvo 📍 Where: Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam 📅 When: December 17th, 2024 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/d7NiGfTH
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Just published study on Ghanaian cocoa farmer incomes using a sector wide measurement methodology. For those working in Ghana, this could be a helpful public resource to contextualize your data on costs of production, yields and net incomes. The Living Income Community of Practice
Joint Study with Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) on the Incomes of Cocoa-Producing Households published! A joint study by the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa, the Ghana Cocoa Board-COCOBOD, and other partners such as the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) and BFH-HAFL has highlighted significant economic challenges cocoa farmers face in Ghana. Browse through the short version below or access the full version of the paper here 👇 https://lnkd.in/e7Cvr2_v Based on surveys of 600 farming households and 22 focus group discussions during the 2022/23 cocoa harvest, the study found that: 1️⃣ Cocoa farmers in Ghana earn an 𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗛𝗦 𝟮𝟰,𝟴𝟭𝟰 (USD 2,021). 2️⃣ 91% of the surveyed households earn below the adjusted Living Income Benchmark of GHS 52,970 (USD 4,315). 3️⃣ Despite an increase in the farmgate price of cocoa in April and September 2024, prices remain insufficient to achieve a Living Income. 4️⃣ Beyond price, the 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. A big thank you to the authors and contributors Isaac Manu (PhD), Dawud Enning Koduah, Francis Baah, George Ahenkorah-Frimpong, Joseph Bandanaa (Ph.D.), Katharina Ineichen, Rebecca Schmid, Johan Blockeel, Esther Waldmeier and Nicoletta Lumaldo. #CocoaFarmers #SustainableCocoa #Livelihoods #LivingIncome #Sustainability #CHIS
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📢 At the start of November, we hosted the Living Income in Latin America Workshop: Towards a Prosperous Future. 🌎 The workshop was a a great success! We provided a platform for participants to deep dive into living income initiatives and approaches in the region and learn from one another. Throughout the two days, we explored living income in Latin America, with sessions on due diligence, impactful living income interventions, environmental and economic resilience, purchasing practices, and best practices in living income measurement. 🌱 We are thrilled to connect to people from various sectors, all working to advance living income, and we hope this workshop has laid the foundation for continued exchange and action! 🙌 We’d like to give a special thanks to all of the participants and speakers for their insights and contributions. ➡ The slides from the workshop are now available to download on our website: https://lnkd.in/eagkYNRW #LivingIncome #LICOP #LivingIncomeinLatinAmerica Antonie Fountain (VOICE Network VOCAL (Voice of Organisations in Coffee Alliance)), Ximena Serrano (PROCOLOMBIA), Gabriel Cardenas Barrera (Embajada de Suiza en Colombia), Joao Mattos (CLAC), Paolo Muschi (ofi), Pablo Ramirez, Andres Acevedo (RGC Coffee Inc.), Allie Strauss (Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.), Diewertje Hendriks, Joel Brounen (Solidaridad Network), Luis Enrique C. (Nestlé Nespresso SA), Maria Alexandra Pastrana (SKN Caribecafé SAS), Stefan Ruge (Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung - HRNS) Carla Veldhuyzen vanZanten (Fairtrade International), José Leibovich ( National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers), Tom Van den Steen (Rikolto), Victor Cordero ( La Red Ecolsierra), David Mozzo, Jessica Mullan (Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)), Marcelo Delajara (Anker Research Institute) Georgina Barker Susana Loaiza Zuluaga
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📣 Evidensia and ISEAL are seeking an experienced research team to conduct a systemic evidence review on supply chain-led #sustainability approaches and their impact on #smallholder livelihoods. 🌱 This project also includes a literature review that explores the links between #livelihoods and conservation outcomes. 📆 Submit your proposals by 29 November 2024. ➡ Find out more: https://t.ly/Zls-M
Call for proposals! 📝 ISEAL and Evidensia are looking for an experienced research team to conduct a systematic evidence review refresh on the effects of supply chain-led sustainability approaches on smallholder livelihoods, with follow-on analysis on conservation outcomes. Deadline: 29 November 2024 👉 Find out more https://t.ly/Zls-M
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📣Happening Now! 🌱The Living Income Community of Practice has gathered practitioners in Bogotá, Colombia for our workshop, Living Income in Latin America: Towards a Prosperous Future. 🌎This morning, we welcomed our guests to the workshop, with opening remarks from Georgina Barker (FCDO Services ) Nina Kuppetz (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ) and Susana Loaiza Zuluaga (IDH ) and prepared our workshop attendees for two days of collaboration and peer learning on living income in Latin America. We'll be sharing some photos of the event as it unfolds, so stay tuned. We'll be sure to keep you updated throughout the next two days. #LivingIncome #SmallholderProducers #LICOP #LivingIncomeinLatinAmerica ISEAL Sustainable Food Lab Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
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☕ We are in Caldas, Colombia for the coffee learning journey, speaking and learning directly from producers and their communities. We have been learning about: ▪ the development of intervention programmes with a community focus, ▪ tackling income gaps with very small producers ▪ supporting coffee farmers ▪ income diversification opportunities ▪ food security initiatives ▪ innovative trading relationships ▪ how farm workers and living wage fit into a living income approach 🌱For this learning journey, we have partnered with Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. and Canadian coffee importer company RGC Coffee Inc., as well as IDH, Nestlé Nespresso SA, and Colombian trader Cafexport. #LivingIncome #Coffee #SmallholderProducers #LICOP #LivingIncomeInLatinAmerica ISEAL Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Sustainable Food Lab
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