THE CONTEXT
Our current agricultural system maintains farmers in the poverty trap
While 80% of our food is produced by family farmers, a vast majority cannot even feed themselves and are below the poverty line.
The lack of economic resources encourages extensive and unsustainable farming, often at the expense of natural resources (soil depletion, on and off-farm deforestation).
On top of driving severe inequalities and negative externalities, agricultural supply chains are at a high risk of disruption as farmers tend to switch to more profitable crops and young people do not see their future in agriculture.
OUR MISSION
We build bridges between the different players of agricultural systems
to promote farmers’ economic and climate resilience
Climate resilient agriculture
Crop diversification
Living income
Environmental protection
Empowered farmer organizations
Agricultural transformation
Access to market
Certification/compliance
Sustainability sourcing strategy
Training and support to internalizing CSR operation
OUR FOCUS
Food and textile supply chains
To maximize the value we generate for our partners and beneficiaries, we specialize in agricultural supply chains in the food and textile sectors (with a focus on cocoa and coffee).
OUR OFFERS
We combine consulting services and implementation of field operations
Technical studies
We coordinate ad hoc studies targeting farmers’ resilience, producer organization strengthening, or specific sustainability issues such as Living Income assessment, and climate vulnerability analysis.
Operations & strategy consulting
At the heart of supply chains, we design and review sustainability operations’ strategies, support the internalization of sustainability and strengthen the implementation of operations.
Field operations
We align research perspectives, business objectives, and field realities into pilot and innovative field operations, through our local teams.