📋 Tender Overview
Country: Global (Brazil, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Uzbekistan)
Objective
Sustainability is improved in selected agriculture supply chains.
Approach
The project helps improve the sustainability of popular agricultural products. It focuses on bananas, cotton, coffee, cocoa, natural rubber, palm oil and soy. To this end, it works with players along the entire supply chains, from international companies to smallholders.
At a global level, we work across countries and stakeholders to combat transboundary challenges.
The underlying approach is 'from SHELF to FIELD'. Companies dominate the market and have the greatest influence on the supply chains. The project therefore cooperates with international companies which want to mainstream sustainability in their supply chain. The collaboration is intended to provide product traceability from the shelf to the field. This tells consumers whether a product actually meets minimum social and environmental standards. The goal is to achieve sustainability, starting from the consumer.
The project organises training courses for farmers on good agricultural practices (GAP) and organisational development aspects. Smallholders receive assistance to convert their production to satisfy international standards such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) or Fairtrade. In order to ensure the industry's future, particular attention is paid to promoting women and involving young adults in the agricultural sector.
Producers can increase and diversify their income if more value creation took place locally. Centres for founding and supporting start-ups are therefore being established to promote local investment in textile processing. Building local value creation means also implementing measures to increase the quality of agricultural commodities, for example by linking producers with speciality markets.
To make the best use of global synergies, the global project promotes international knowledge transfer of good practices and good governance in sust
