Rikolto (International)

Discover our work. Invest in smallholder farmers.

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

Farmers have been earning 8 million dollars in the past two years
03/05/2018 in News
For the last two years, Rikolto has been implementing a big project in Uganda, called Food Trade. The project linked smallholder staple food surpluses to regional markets. At the end of the project we noticed that farmers received 12% better prices for their commodities relative to the prevailing market prices.
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?
How can we learn as an organisation? (part IV)
08/02/2018 in Insights
In this four-part article series, we’ll dive into some key insights and building blocks that can help your organisation to take learning to the next level and share some of our own experience.
Tea farmers increase income by 30% thanks to sustainable land management in Northern Vietnam
07/02/2018 in News
Since 2016, over 3,180 Vietnamese tea farmers have been trained by Rikolto (previously VECO) on sustainable land management practices as part of The Rainforest Alliance’s project “Mainstreaming Sustainable Management of Tea Production Landscapes”. Initial results show that farmers’ income has increased by an average of 30% due to a reduction in chemical use and higher prices for quality tea leaves.

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

Farmers have been earning 8 million dollars in the past two years

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

How can we learn as an organisation? (part IV)

Tea farmers increase income by 30% thanks to sustainable land management in Northern Vietnam