Rikolto (International)

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Food Smart Cities @ Rikolto
How to provide affordable quality food in booming cities? City policies can offer opportunities for farmers and push food production and consumption towards more sustainability.
The Inclusive Business Scan
Rikolto, with support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has developed the Inclusive Business Scan (powered by SenseMaker) to organise real-time feedback on inclusive business in smallholder supply chains.
Sustainable production can save a lake in Nicaragua
Farmers, fishermen, actors in tourism and energy sector work together to find solutions to alleviate the ever growing pressure on lake Apanás in Nicaragua.

What will we eat tomorrow?

Rikolto (formerly VECO) enables and supports smallholder farmers to take up their role in rural poverty alleviation and to contribute to feeding a growing world population in a sustainable way.

News & Insights

Inclusive Business Scan: members’ perception on coffee cooperative Kawa Kanzururu
25/09/2018 in Case studies
In November 2017, Rikolto in DR Congo used the Inclusive Business Scan to collect stories from members of the Kawa Kanzururu Arabica coffee cooperative in North Kivu. The aim was to understand what the members think about having access to the coffee micro-washing station and about the relationship between members, micro-washing station and the cooperative. This will help pave the way for the Kawa Kanzururu cooperative being able to operate independently without Rikolto’s support.
Vacancy: International Cocoa Program Coordinator
24/09/2018 in News
We are recruiting an International Cocoa Program Coordinator to tests and harvests new solutions to make the cocoa sector more sustainable and resilient. The deadline to apply is October 12th 2018.
Socio-political crisis in Nicaragua
22/08/2018 in News
Since April 18 of this year, Nicaragua faces a deep socio-political crisis. Rikolto works in the cocoa, vegetable and coffee sector. Due to general insecurity and protesters’ barricades (until July), there was generally less mobility and trade, which affected the functioning of the cooperatives and the livelihoods of the farmers.
Taking stock of 10 years of PGS in Vietnam: how do we replicate success?
14/08/2018 in News
On 30 July, Vietnam National University of Agriculture and Rikolto organised the workshop “10 years of Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) in Vietnam: Sharing lessons and introducing a new PGS training toolbox”. The event concluded a one-year project funded by the Agroecology Learning Alliance in Southeast Asia to capitalise PGS experiences in Vietnam for upscaling and institutionalisation.
Sustainability policy in practice in supermarkets and food companies in Belgium: is progress being made?
02/03/2018 in Insights
Better for the environment! Better for your health! Better for people and animals! Supermarkets and food companies in Belgium are constantly launching initiatives on sustainability. Time to assess the situation. In what areas are supermarkets heading in the right direction with their sustainability policy? And where are the sticking points?

Rikolto (International)

Discover our work. Invest in smallholder farmers.

Food Smart Cities @ Rikolto

The Inclusive Business Scan

Sustainable production can save a lake in Nicaragua

What will we eat tomorrow?

News & Insights

Inclusive Business Scan: members’ perception on coffee cooperative Kawa Kanzururu

Vacancy: International Cocoa Program Coordinator

Socio-political crisis in Nicaragua

Taking stock of 10 years of PGS in Vietnam: how do we replicate success?

Sustainability policy in practice in supermarkets and food companies in Belgium: is progress being made?