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.
Cinnamon in Kerinci, Sumatra in Indonesia
Small-scale cinnamon farmers grow organic vegetables to diversify their sources of income.

Our mission

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

Rikolto is born! Vredeseilanden/VECO changes brand name
30/09/2017 in News
As of 30th September 2017, the first of several events worldwide took place to launch VECO’s new name: Rikolto. Rikolto is the Esperanto word for ‘harvest’. Rikolto wants farmers to have a brilliant harvest, and we want to especially harvest great new ideas and solutions to improve our food systems.  
This is how VECO measures impact
04/09/2017 in Insights
Every three years we at Vredeseilanden/VECO perform an extensive impact analysis of our development programmes. We have now made an effort to present these results on this page in a clear way. It is the first step of a work in progress. That is why in this blogpost we want to take a minute and think about how we go about measuring the impact of our work.
Jasmin rice, Basmati rice, long grain rice... or sustainable rice?
05/07/2017 in Insights
In October 2015, the Sustainable Rice Platform launched its Standard for Sustainable Rice Cultivation. Is it just another standard or label? Or is it something else? Our colleague Christ Vansteenkiste explains.

Rikolto (International)

Discover our work. Invest in smallholder farmers.

Food Smart Cities @ Rikolto

The Inclusive Business Scan

Cinnamon in Kerinci, Sumatra in Indonesia

Our mission

News & Insights

Rikolto is born! Vredeseilanden/VECO changes brand name

This is how VECO measures impact

Jasmin rice, Basmati rice, long grain rice... or sustainable rice?