Creating positive change where it matters
Focus Areas describe the sectors, landscapes and funds where we collaborate with our partners for the greatest impact. To ensure sustainability is always front and centre, all of our work is guided by one or more of five cross-cutting Impact Agendas. Working with every link in the value chain to transform ways of working from the field to the boardroom.
A multidimensional approach to transformation
Environmental and social challenges are deeply interconnected and complex, requiring collaborative and holistic solutions. By focusing on four key impact areas identified with our partners, we can address the most pressing sustainability issues.
Living Income
Raising farmer incomes by addressing unequal value distribution
Decent Work and Wages
Ensuring fair remuneration for workers and producers in global value chains
Gender Equality
Shaping gender transformative approaches that catalyse economic growth
Climate and Nature
Planet-proof and people-first policies to keep supply chains and ecosystems thriving
Transforming value chains across sectors and regions
Agriculture, aquaculture or apparel – we pursue our Impact Agendas through different IDH-powered programs in 16 sectors across the globe. From producing to consuming markets, stakeholders along the whole value chain collaborate to improve social and environmental sustainability within their sector, whether in manufacturing, policies or procurement practices.
Sector programs supported by IDH
Discover more about each sector and the programs and targets we are working towards to change business practices, improve sector governance and achieve field-level impact with our partners, globally.
Improving governance, forest protection and sustainable production in the most vulnerable sourcing areas
Our landscape approach looks beyond commodities and geographic boundaries to future-proof entire jurisdictions. Setting shared goals and facilitating investments in sustainable ways to manage the land and ensure long-term success.
Through partnerships, we bring together public sector custodians of the land, farmers who till the soil and businesses who source from the area to boost sustainable production while protecting and regenerating forests and improving inclusive governance.
Discover more about our landscape approach where we work
A single project can’t solve a complex problem. But through sector-agnostic partnerships we collaborate on transitioning to climate-resilient agriculture and protecting and restoring natural ecosystems.
Smarter supply chains through smallholder service delivery
IDH FarmFit benefits businesses and farmers by leveraging large data sets to inform investments in smallholder business models and providing access to finance, markets and training.
By sharing valuable insights from quantitative as well as qualitative data, we enable companies, their support organisations and investors to develop cost-effective strategies to make smallholder value chains more efficient, effective and impactful.
