IDH Podcasts IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative

In this new podcast episode, we discuss with Veronique Bovee, Deputy Director at Proforest, what aspects the palm oil industry can improve to achieve sustainability goals and what are the risks of the EU deforestation regulation on smallholder farmers. During the discussion, Veronique also highlights the positive aspects of the collaboration between IDH and Proforest and how we can work together towards a more sustainable palm oil industry.

In this episode Celine Gilart, Director of Social Impact and Sustainability at Twinings, provides concrete examples of how women’s empowerment and gender equality can work to not only improve lives, but also be an engine for economic growth and business. It is clear there is a long way to go before we can say that all supply chains are safe and empowering for women, but efforts are being made to get there. IDH and Twining’s are collaborating, alongside Unilever, Ethical Tea Partnership, Tesco and Taylors, through “The Women’s Safety Accelerator Fund” to address the root causes of gender-based violence in the tea supply chain in Assam, West Bengal and South India. This program works with both management level, and the tea garden workers, along with government service providers, to tackle harmful social norms, such as patriarchal attitudes, as well as lack of access to information and knowledge. Listen to the podcast to find out more.

Attempts to make our value chains gender inclusive can often mean adding women into the picture, but not really changing the power dynamics between men and women.

IDH believes that to make our value chains sustainable, traditional norms, behaviours, and power dynamics need to be challenged and transformed. And male engagement on gender issues will be an essential part of that work.

How can male engagement help make business gender transformative? Listen to the podcast in conversation with Cesar Maita, Gender Lead and Matthew Spencer, Global Director Landscapes at IDH.

Learn more about IDH’s work on gender transformative business in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLVPKs-ywfM

How is IDH working toward transforming the Palm Oil market? This podcast is a conversation between Neha Simlai, Senior Program Manager IDH, and Sneha Maheshwari, Program Officer, Palm Oil both based at the IDH India office. They discuss the potential of regional Asian markets, in particular India, to turn the tide towards responsible palm oil uptake and production.

Meet Talash Huibers, a young Kenyan agripreneur who is passionate about using her business to bring a transformative change to the world and who proofs that agriculture is cool and lucrative especially for the youth and women. She is the founder of InsectiPro, a company that is in business of growing insects.

In this IDH podcast, our communication manager in IDH Kenya, Solomon Irungu, had a conversation with her and she explains how she sees the world in color, not in black and white.

Find out more about the work InsectiPro and IDH undertake together in this article: https://www.idhsustainabletrade.com/news/is-this-black-soldier-fly-the-answer-to-food-security-in-africa/

Seafood MAP is a globally inclusive digital platform to compile, accelerate, and improve all fisheries and aquaculture efforts on the pathway to sustainability. In this podcast, both Angel Matamoro, Chief CSR and Institutional Relations Officer of Nueva Pescanova Group and Annika Mackensen, Advisor Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture at GIZ, explain why they support Seafood MAP.