The Living Income Community of Practice

🌿 Empowering Smallholder Olive Growers in Peru & Chile Small olive producers in Tacna (Peru) and the Azapa Valley (Chile) face major challenges - from unfair market practices to the misuse of the “Azapa” name that threatens their livelihoods and traditions. In a recent article, Germana Foscale highlights how two associations -APRECOLIV and ASOVA -are joining forces to create a more sustainable and transparent olive market. Their pilot initiatives include a QR-based traceability system, ensuring consumers can connect directly with growers and verify the authenticity of their products. ➡️ Read the report to find out more : https://lnkd.in/eQ8eep5w 

🌿 Yesterday was #RuralWomensDay, a great reminder that gender equality isn’t optional - it’s central to delivering living incomes for smallholder communities. 💡 This briefing paper, authored by Sally Smith (ARI) and Anny Stoikova (ISEAL) and lays out a practical, four-part framework (strategy, measurement, design, evaluation) with clear steps companies can take to move from gender-blind to gender-transformative programs. 🔗 Curious what a gender-transformative living income intervention looks like in practice? Read the briefing paper: https://lnkd.in/dzzt6PUF #LivingIncome #GenderEquality #SustainableSupplyChains

🌍 CFS 53 Side Event | Living Income Approaches for Fair and Sustainable Agrifood Systems 🌾 Join us and FAO for an insightful discussion on how Living Income approaches can transform agrifood systems - ensuring smallholders earn with dignity and thrive in the transition toward fair, resilient, and sustainable livelihoods. This side event is part of the 53rd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), a global platform shaping policies for food security and nutrition. 📅 Date: Friday 24 October 2025 🕓 Time: 11:45 – 13:00 CET 📍 Location: Rome, Italy (and online) ✅ Join us in person or virtually! 👉 In-person registration closes on Friday, 17 October 2025. 💻 Register here: https://lnkd.in/esgnS8AG Let’s advance the conversation on #LivingIncome and #RuralDevelopment to build #SustainableAgrifoodSystems that truly work for everyone. 🌱

‼️ Last chance to register! 🌿 How can joint and scalable efforts in health unlock broader impact and income stability for smallholder farmers? 🤝 Join us Thursday as we host this webinar with Elucid and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to explore how collaboration across the cocoa and cotton sectors is strengthening healthcare access for smallholder farming communities, creating positive ripple effects on income stability and family health. The session will unpack how healthcare access helps protect farmer incomes by reducing out-of-pocket costs, preventing productivity losses, and enabling reinvestment in farming. Partners from Tony's Chocolonely and Olam Agri will discuss their experience on the strong case for integrating health into supply chain strategies, reducing economic vulnerability among farmers, and supporting more resilient sourcing systems. With co-investors DEG, GIZ, Better Cotton Initiative and GAVI, this panel will discuss how joint engagement from cocoa and cotton stakeholders helped unlock additional public co-funding. This support has expanded the reach of health interventions beyond individual supply chains to entire farming communities, increasing impact and contributing to long-term improvements in health, resilience, and livelihoods. In this webinar, we will hear from: 📍Louisa Marie Truß, Head of Partnerships and Communication at Elucid 📍Isaac Vifa, General Manager at Asetenapa Cocoa Farmers' Unit. 📍 Miriam Amine, Senior Manager, M&E lead at DEG Impulse 📍Maria Sabine Kjær, Sustainable Livelihoods Manager at Better Cotton Initiative 📍Belinda Christine Borck, Global Public Policy Lead / Chocolonely Foundation Manager at Tony's Chocolonely 📍Markus Beck, German Market Lead, Senior Manager, Global Donor Relations, Advocacy and Fund Raising at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance 📍Josia Nyamien Epse Coulibaly, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Manager at Olam Agri 📍Nina Hollemann, Advisor at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH 📆 Date: Thursday 16 October 🕑 Time: 14:00-15:30 BST 🔗https://lnkd.in/eXKJK_pj #LivingIncome #Smallholders #Farmers

🌿 How can joint and scalable efforts in health unlock broader impact and income stability for smallholder farmers? 🤝 Join us for a webinar hosted by the Living Income Community of Practice with Elucid and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to explore how collaboration across the cocoa and cotton sectors is strengthening healthcare access for smallholder farming communities, creating positive ripple effects on income stability and family health. The session will unpack how healthcare access helps protect farmer incomes by reducing out-of-pocket costs, preventing productivity losses, and enabling reinvestment in farming. Partners from Tony's Chocolonely and Olam Agri will discuss their experience on the strong case for integrating health into supply chain strategies, reducing economic vulnerability among farmers, and supporting more resilient sourcing systems. With co-investors DEG, GIZ, Better Cotton Initiative and GAVI, this panel will discuss how joint engagement from cocoa and cotton stakeholders helped unlock additional public co-funding. This support has expanded the reach of health interventions beyond individual supply chains to entire farming communities, increasing impact and contributing to long-term improvements in health, resilience, and livelihoods. In this webinar, we will hear from:  📍 Miriam Amine, Senior Manager, M&E lead at DEG Impulse 📍Maria Sabine Kjær, Sustainable Livelihoods Manager at Better Cotton 📍Belinda Christine Borck, Global Public Policy Lead / Chocolonely Foundation Manager at Tony's Chocolonely 📍Markus Beck, German Market Lead, Senior Manager, Global Donor Relations, Advocacy and Fund Raising at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance 📍Josia Nyamien Epse Coulibaly, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Manager at Olam Agri 📍Nina Hollemann, Advisor at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH 📆 Date: Thursday 16 October 🕑 Time: 14:00-15:30 BST 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d3rwdwjR #LivingIncome #Smallholders #Farmers

🌿 This month, we came together in a webinar to explore how gender equality is essential to achieving a living income in smallholder farming communities. Our launch webinar for our new briefing paper, co-produced with the Anker Research Institute, The Importance of Gender Equality for Living Incomes in Smallholder Farming Communities, brought together a diverse panel of experts who: ✨ Shared why gender dynamics must be at the heart of measuring, designing, and evaluating living income interventions. ✨ Showcased practical examples of turning gender insights into action – from internal buy-in to monitoring outcomes. ✨ Provided tools and resources to help practitioners embed gender equality into their work. 👏 This insightful webinar wouldn't have been possible without the contributions and insights from our moderators and speakers: Anny Stoikova (ISEAL), Christina Archer (Sustainable Food Lab), Sally Smith (ARI), Anna Laven (KIT Institute), Darrell High (Nestlé), Emily Janoch (CARE), Ariana Carter (ECOM Agroindustrial Corp. Ltd.). 🔗 Couldn’t join us live? You can now access the recording, slides, resources, and full report here on our website: https://lnkd.in/eb9H7xSD #LivingIncome #GenderEquality #Producers

🌿 We're looking forward to hosting our in-person workshop - Pathways for Income Improvement: Unlocking Opportunities for Smallholders in Asia - in Indonesia on November 6-7, with optional learning journeys from November 3-5. This workshop will bring together practitioners, companies, policymakers, and producer organisations across Asia to: ✅  Review sector progress on income improvement and #Living Income ✅ Explore case studies from #Indonesia and beyond ✅ Exchange knowledge and refine strategies to close the income gap for farmers 🤝 This workshop is a space for collaboration, peer learning, and action—bringing together the people and ideas that can accelerate income improvement for producers across Asia. ⬇️ Visit our website for more information ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/edfkFvkF ISEAL Sustainable Food Lab Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH #Smallholder #IncomeImprovement

🌿 Gender equality isn’t just a 'nice to have' — it's essential to achieving living incomes. Yet, the connection between the two is still too often overlooked. Anny Stoikova and Christina Archer will moderate this webinar as we are joined by a panel of experts. This webinar will: 🔹 Launch a new paper by LICOP and Anker Research Institute: The importance of gender equality for living incomes in smallholder farming communities 🔹 Explore how gender dynamics shape the way we measure #LivingIncome 🔹 Highlight real-world examples of organisations embedding #gender equality in their work 🔹 Share practical tools and resources to help practitioners put these approaches into practice 📆 Date: Tuesday 9 September 🕑 Time: 14:00-15:30 BST (UTC+1) ⬇️ Register now! ⬇️ 🔗https://lnkd.in/eVXdtRhq ISEAL Sustainable Food Lab Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH KIT Nestlé CARE ECOM AGROTRADE LIMITED Anker Research Institute

🌿 How is gender equality a crucial part in achieving a living income? Building on the success of our previous webinars, we are hosting a launch webinar for our joint paper with the Anker Research Institute, The Importance of Gender Equality for Living Incomes in Smallholder Farming Communities, with critical discussions on transforming gender-insights into actionable strategies. Bringing together a diverse panel of experts, this webinar will:  📍 Launch LICOP & ARI's new paper, The Importance of Gender Equality for Living Incomes in Smallholder Farming Communities, and share key insights. 📍 Explore why gender dynamics must shape how we measure living income, design interventions, and evaluate impact, with a focus on understanding gender dynamics in smallholder households and a commitment to promoting gender equality and human rights. 📍 Showcase practical examples of how organisations operationalise gender equality – from securing internal buy-in to implementation and monitoring. Share tools and resources to help practitioners apply these approaches in their work ⬇️ Join us on Tuesday 9 September ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gXkfAfew

🌿 How can joint and scalable efforts in health unlock broader impact and income stability for smallholder farmers? 🤝 Join this webinar explore how collaboration across the #cocoa and #cotton sectors is strengthening #healthcare access for smallholder farming communities, creating positive ripple effects on income stability and gender equity. 💡 Drawing on insights from Elucid’s work in global supply chains, we’ll highlight how joint engagement from cocoa and cotton stakeholders helped unlock additional public co-funding. This support has expanded the reach of health interventions beyond individual supply chains to entire farming communities, increasing impact and contributing to long-term improvements in health, resilience, and livelihoods. A panel of company representatives, local implementers, and funders will share practical insights from the field, followed by an interactive audience Q&A. ⬇️ Register to join this webinar ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eXKJK_pj #LivingIncome Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ISEAL Sustainable Food Lab Stephanie L. Daniels