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

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.
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.

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

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

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)