Assessment Methodologies
To achieve a more economically resilient and sustainable coffee sector, that brings real value to all stakeholders, the sector needs transparency and credible information. This is particularly true for smallholders, who are the foundation of the coffee sector, to be able to improve their economic situation and move towards prosperity, while providing economic and social […]
Guidance manual on calculating and visualizing income gap to a Living Income Benchmark
The Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP) has identified the need for guidance to support researchers and practitioners in assessing the gap between actual farming household incomes and estimates of the Living Income Benchmark in a particular location. ISEAL, on behalf of the LICoP, engaged KIT Royal Tropical Institute and Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) […]
Measurement of the Living Income Benchmarkin three coffee-growing regions of Honduras: Comayagua, Copán, and El Paraíso
This report was authored by NewForesight. NewForesight is a strategy consultancy specializing in sustainability and market transformation. NewForesight seeks to drive innovation in the field of sustainability. Over the past years, we have worked with companies, sector initiatives and platforms, standards organizations, governments, donors, and investors to push the decent work agenda, through our work […]
Measuring Smallholder Incomes: Towards better alignment and reporting of farm economic metrics
COSA, ISEAL and the Sustainable Food Lab are aligning our metric protocols and producing common guidance on smallholder agriculture sustainability measurement. To begin, we are developing this guidance for metrics related to farm and household income. This is not a new set of metrics, but a mutual guidance document for gathering data on commonly accepted […]
Living Income Benchmark
Methodology Guide This Guide helps the reader to understand key elements of the living income concept: what is it, why is it relevant, and how can it be calculated. The Guide sets out the Living Income Benchmarking Methodology as designed by NewForesight, recognized by the IDH Living Wage Recognition Process and B Corp, and based […]
