Region: South America

Making fair-trade mainstream

At the United Nations summit about sustainable development in Rio Solidaridad is working towards a more sustainable supply chain. In an…

21 August 2014

Rio+20: A missed opportunity?

After two weeks of a plethora of events and meetings, the Rio Earth Summit ended amid disappointment and divisions. The…

India: New step towards more sustainable sugar

Solidaridad and businesses in India are making progress in producing more sugar that has been certified by the Bonsucro standard,…

20 August 2014

Tea Improvement Programme sets 2013 goals

Solidaridad led the Argentinian trade mission that attended the 3rd annual North American Tea conference held by the Tea Association of…

South America: New developments on training and certifying soy family farmers

Since 2009, Solidaridad South America has been working with more than 800 soy family farmers in South Brazil by supporting them…

Enhancing sugarcane sustainability in South America

In a joint effort to enhance sustainability initiatives and foster synergies between Solidaridad sugarcane partners in South America, project managers…

Raízen presents first results of Farmer Support and Loyalty Tool

A new specially designed software program helps farmers improve their business. It generates an individual recommendation report for improving practices…

Travel with Bibi van der Velden to the gold mines of Peru

Many people think that slavery is something from the time of the conquistadors and colonial domination in Africa. Unfortunately, slavery…

Testing New Tools for Halting Modern-Day Slavery at Gold Mines

Solidaridad has partnered with organizations in Peru and Colombia to test whether Solidaridad’s approach to supporting better practices can stop…

New programme for climate-smart agriculture in coffee

Solidaridad starts a new programme for climate-smart production of coffee. In recent years pilot projects showed interesting opportunities in the…