Overview

IDH (The Sustainable Trade Initiative) works across agricultural value chains to deliver better jobs, better income, a better environment, and gender equity for all. By co-creating interventions across the globe, the organisation aims to transform markets through collaboration between public and private partners.

Mission and focus areas

IDH co-creates interventions based on five impact agendas that cut across sectors and regions: Living Income, Decent Work and Wages, Climate and Nature, and Gender Equality. Its work is concentrated on key commodity sectors including Apparel, Bananas, Cocoa, Coffee, Cotton, Flowers, Fruit and Vegetables, Palm Oil, Spices, and Vanilla.

Programs and offerings

IDH mobilises public and private capital to finance impactful business models and projects, focusing on fair value and risk distribution. The organisation gathers data, tests innovations, and influences the practices of companies, farmers, investors, and governments to drive food system change.

Our mission

To transform agricultural markets toward a future with prosperous livelihoods, long-term supply security, and lasting environmental resilience