Creating positive impact for people, planet and progress
Together with our partners, we’re working to develop sustainable business models around low-carbon products and living wages in aquaculture supply chains.
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing form of food production on earth. Aquaculture can provide healthy, high-quality food with limited environmental impact, creating jobs and prosperity if done sustainably.
Aquaculture offers a promising alternative to meat production with a lower environmental footprint, but it also presents challenges, such as a potentially high carbon and biodiversity footprint due to deforestation linked to feed ingredients. Also, it is not always known whether workers in the sector earn a living wage.
At IDH, we strive to transform the aquaculture industry into a low-carbon sector, paying living wages to its workers who deliver healthy food while preserving the planet. By collaborating with our partners, we prioritise implementing best practices like better measuring carbon and wages and ensuring access to deforestation-free and conversion-free feed, all aimed at reducing environmental impact and improving wages.
Together with our partners, we’re working to develop sustainable business models around low-carbon products and living wages in aquaculture supply chains.
“The Aquaculture Working Group helps us understand our footprint by providing a consistent environmental footprint tool for aquaculture, which didn’t exist before, and by learning from each other how to collect, process, and use the data.”
We work with the shrimp, pangasius and tilapia supply chains.
The group consists of companies working together to better measure and reduce the environmental footprint of Aquaculture.
Vietnam's seafood workers face long hours, low wages, poor work conditions. Better conditions & collective bargaining improve productivity.