Region: East & Central Africa
Bottom UP! is designed to help Ethiopian factories improve their environmental and ethical standards by developing sustainable and equitable production…
12 January 2023
Sustainability Initiatives Will Fail Until Companies Pay More for Cocoa, says new report
Endemic sustainability issues within global cocoa supply chains, including child labour and deforestation will continue unless efforts are coupled with…
07 December 2022
RECLAIM Sustainability! 2021 Progress Report
The RECLAIM Sustainability! programme is a partnership working to strengthen civil society and foster inclusive sustainability in global value chains.…
01 December 2022
Working towards self-regulation in small-scale gold mining in Kenya
In Kenya, artisanal and small-scale gold mining employs roughly 250,000 miners with women making up 40% of the total. Though…
16 November 2022
Palm oil’s future is sustainable; the discourse is stuck in the past
In the light of the recently published Palm Oil Barometer and as sustainable palm oil production continues to be a…
07 November 2022
Celebrating Rural Women Contributions in sub-Saharan Africa
This month we join the rest of the world to celebrate the thousands of rural women (farmers and workers) in…
18 October 2022
Farmer Cooperatives: Key to unlocking farmer potential?
In East and Central Africa, Solidaridad is working with more than 1,000 cooperatives to enable them to offer quality services…
11 October 2022
Putting youth employment and entrepreneurship at the centre of agri-sector development
Young people are essential to economic development and food security in East, Central and Southern Africa as they make up…
03 October 2022
Coffee Sustainability: Kenya’s Looming Crisis Amidst the Soaring Cost of Production
Over half a million Kenyan smallholder farmers are farming coffee. But they only produce 2 to 3 kilograms of cherry…
30 September 2022
16 September 2022