May 01 2018
Perspective
Today, 40 percent of all food produced is never eaten, which is the equivalent of throwing nearly $1 trillion right in the trash—lost labor, water, energy, profits to small farmers, …
Mar 27 2018
Press Releases
Support from The Rockefeller Foundation will enable processors to integrate smallholder farmers in their supply chain
New York--IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative, is pleased to announce receipt of a $2,000,000 grant …
Mar 07 2018
Perspective
After giving birth to her third child, Sarah* lay in a hospital bed in a small town in Meru County, Kenya, battling a ruptured appendix. While struggling to stay alive, …
FORMER INITIATIVE
Working along the agricultural supply chain to catalyze a uniquely African green revolution
Food Africa
Nov 28 2017
World Wildlife Fund and the American Hotel and Lodging Association, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, created this toolkit as a challenge to the industry to: PREVENT food waste from …
Food
Nov 17 2017
Wasted food and its effects on people, the environment, and the economy have become a major topic of
national conversation, and for good reason. When we waste food, we also waste …
Food
Nov 13 2017
The Zero Waste Design Guidelines grew from a question posed by Clare Miflin, architect at Kiss + Cathcart, Architects. While moderating an Urban Green panel on organics collection, she asked, …
Food
Nov 13 2017
Perspective
In late September, the world gathered in New York for the 72nd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Although most attention focused on urgent crises around the world, there were also …
Nov 10 2017
Perspective
Urbanization and rising middle-class incomes across Africa mean that half of Africa’s food now sells in cities – and, increasingly, in supermarkets. Significant local and foreign investment in food manufacturing …