IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative

Cocoa Will Never Be Sustainable Without Living Wages for Farmers; New Action Guide Helps Companies Get There
The VOICE Network’s Cocoa Barometer links the range of challenges facing cocoa-farming communities to pervasive poverty. The IDH’s new, free Living Wage Action Guide helps companies find the path to the best interventions for their situation. ... View More
B Lab Aligns with IDH to Enable More Companies, Workers to Benefit from a Living Wage
B Lab has updated its B Impact Assessment guidance and standards to align with the IDH Living Wage Roadmap — highlighting more companies’ work on this front will illustrate the feasibility of providing living wages globally. ... View More
Different Paths, Common Goal: How More Companies Are Providing Living Wages
Paying living wages throughout supply chains can mean changing business models, which can seem insurmountable. But a series of case studies from IDH shows how companies and coalitions are making real progress on their commitments. ... View More
10 Global Companies Take Action Towards Living Wages
Aldi, Fairphone, L’Oréal, Unilever and more are taking action towards ensuring living wages for workers throughout their supply chains — and calling on others to do the same. ... View More
Collaborative SourceUp Platform to Accelerate Sustainability of Entire Sourcing Regions
IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative and brand partners including Mars, PepsiCo and Unilever have developed the platform to enable a landscape approach to sustainable commodity sourcing. ... View More
Could Diversification, Bean-less Brews Hold Keys to Coffee Sustainability?
A new report says crop diversification will help Vietnamese coffee farmers reduce their CO2 footprint, but makers of a new beverage that’s the molecular equivalent of coffee posit that it could be the wave of a climate-changed future. ... View More
How a Practical Guide to Sourcing Sustainable Cotton Could Help Transform the Industry
‘I would like to source more sustainable cotton, but I’m not quite sure where to start. There seems to be an awful lot of standards out there, and I’m not quite sure what the differences are between them.’ ‘I’d like to increase the volume... View More

