IDH Podcasts

We are in the business of wicked problems: to make change within the complexity of international trade. The question is: how do we do that? In our newly published book Collaborative Transformation we reflect on the work we've done over the past 10 years to find what mechanisms. In today's podcast Carla Romeu-Dalmau, senior manager of Impact and Learning at IDH, and co-author of the book, dives int...

IDH launched together with the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and DIFD, and with the Rabobank, JDE, Unilever, Mondelez, USAid and the Dutch government respectively the 30M USD IDH Farmfit Business Support and the 100M EUR IDH Farmfit Fund.

How is maternity leave on the farm level connected to a favorable position in the international market? In this month's podcast we share learnings and best practices on applying a gender approach in the flower sector in Ethiopia. Sonia Cordera, project manager Fresh and Ingredients at IDH shares about the women empowerment project she’s been involved in and and why a gender approach is not only im...

Cassava, an edible root, is also known as the ‘insurance crop’ because it thrives in infertile soil and feeds millions of households all over Africa. But it also has major industrial potential as it can be processed into syrup, flour, starch and many other products. This month, we hear from Cyril Ugwu, IDH’s regional coordinator for West Africa, on how developing the processed cassava sector can h...

In Padang Tikar village, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, a 'village forest' scheme is supporting communities to both protect their forest and increase their income by engaging in sustainable livelihoods. Aris Wanjaya, IDH's landscape program manager in Indonesia, explains how this scheme is helping ensure forest protection and economic development go hand in hand.

Gender compared to our other impact themes is a difficult topic to address, as it is a topic close to culture. We have rightfully agreed globally that there should be gender equality and gender equity. At the same time we do not have the ambition to change cultures. We need to see from the global commitments and the cultural lenses side how we can effectively address gender topics, also given the...

In this month's podcast, we hear from Flavio Corsin, Program Director for Aquaculture. He sheds light on how IDH works with its partners to address the two biggest issues facing the sector today, disease management and (traceable) feed supply. Data and digital tools are crucial in this process.

Putting a price on water is a delicate business, especially when it involves smallholder farmers. Yet, in parts of the world where water scarcity and droughts become more frequent, policy makers are increasingly looking at pricing as a tool for sustainable water management. Tran Quin Chi, the manager for IDH’s Landscape program in Vietnam, and Michel Scholte, director at True Price, an Amsterdam-b...

Jan Gilhuis, Senior Program Manager in the IDH Fresh & Ingredients Program, and Don Seville, Co-director of the Sustainable Food Lab, discuss the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative. Hear about the motivation behind setting up the initiative, gain insight into the activities carried out with private and public partners, and learn why investing in sustainable livelihoods for smallholder vanilla farmers...

Governments and cocoa companies have signed a framework for action to end deforestation in cocoa. Hear more about this from IDH's Senior Manager Learning and Innovation, Violaine Berger, who works closely with our teams on addressing deforestation.

1 - Daan Wensing on Production, Protection and Inclusion in Brazil by IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative

This podcast is taken from the webinar on impact research hosted by IDH on September 5th 2017. It provides insight into the research methodology on evaluating IDH's contribution to public good impact and the first evidence with a deep-dive into projects in the South West Mau Forest in Kenya.

Episode 2: ICT Solutions For Service Supply To Farmers by IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative

Episode 1: Diversification Of Service Supply To Farmers by IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative