Agriculture is known to place a serious burden on the environment. The effects of climate change in turn negatively impact agricultural supply chains, triggering food insecurity, and biodiversity loss. At IDH, we want to break this cycle of biodiversity degradation and food insecurity.
Our work on climate and nature links social and environmental agendas to ensure agricultural markets support thriving communities in net zero, regenerative agricultural systems. This includes helping farmers transition to climate-resilient practices, developing regenerative, low-carbon and deforestation-free landscapes, promoting chemical waste reduction and the use of pesticides, and linking global markets to sustainable sourcing.
We are convinced that by working together, farmers, communities, governments, traders, manufacturers and retailers can transform practices and generate shared value for people and the planet.
With the Environmental Footprint Roadmap, agri-commodity companies can better understand how to reduce the environmental footprint of specific products. The roadmap outlines five steps to measure a company’s footprint, address environmental challenges, promote sustainability, and protect natural resources.
Through over 15 years of working on environmental issues, we learned that landscape approaches successfully create meaningful and lasting change. The SourceUp platform guides landscape coalitions through the stages of creating a landscape partnership and connects buyers of commodities with coalitions of stakeholders in regions producing these commodities, to jointly improve sustainability along the supply chain.
Through the landscapes approach, we’re working together with our partners on PPI (production, protection and inclusion) compacts in 22 landscapes.
