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19. November 2025

Indian Organic Cotton Scores Big in German Football Stadiums

SASI and its partners are taking their successful “From the Field to the Fanshop” initiative into a new phase, using the power of football to advance sustainability in Germany and in India.

17. November 2025

Ghana- Shaping the regional standard for sustainable cocoa together

Cocoa remains Ghana’s most important agricultural export commodity and a pillar of livelihoods across its major producing regions. With rising global demands for responsibly sourced and traceable high-quality beans, Ghana is pushing forward a major initiative: the African Regional Standard for Sustainable Cocoa.

07. November 2025

Joint Alignment on the Process of Voluntary Contributions

Within the “Better Together” collaboration coordinated by GIZ and IDH, European retailers together with other stakeholders aligned on relevant aspects of implementing voluntary contributions (VC). This alignment aims to reduce the burden on suppliers and producers and to enhance efficiency.

03. November 2025

New project insights published: Progress report 2024

In 2024, the Project “Towards Living Wages in the Banana Sector” made important steps forward in promoting living wages and decent work across banana supply chains.

29. October 2025

FIT for FAIR launches in Thailand: For fair and deforestation-free value chains

FIT for FAIR has officially launched its activities in Thailand with an inaugural workshop in Bangkok. The program is a flagship of the Team Europe initiative for deforestation-free supply chains and is being implemented locally by the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI). A total of ninety-four committed representatives from government, the private sector, academia, the financial sector, and civil society took part in the event.

24. October 2025

DryCard™ now helps rice farmers to reduce post-harvest losses

The DryCard™ is a low-cost tool that helps farmers check if dried food is safe for storage by detecting humidity levels. With support from the Fund for the Promotion of Innovation in Agriculture (I4Ag) and partners, it has now been adapted to the use with rice. This allows rice farmers to reduce spoilage, improve food safety, and protect their income.

21. October 2025

Côte d’Ivoire: Four Years of Shared Work for Sustainable Cocoa, Rubber and Coffee

After four years of close collaboration with public and private partners, the Côte d’Ivoire Team is concluding its activities. The project has worked with thousands of smallholder farmers to strengthen their livelihoods, diversify income sources and promote deforestation-free, fair and climate-resilient agricultural production.

[Translate to EN:] © GIZ / Johanna Deckers

20. October 2025

Progress on Living Wage Efforts

Highlights from the 2024 Piloting Programme and the Living Wage Program 2025

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Events

07. November 2025

SASI Lunchbreak on supply chain due diligence act part 10

In this tenth event of our SASI Lunchbreak series, we will focus on gender equity in agricultural supply chains.

10. October 2025

SASI Lunchbreak on supply chain due diligence act part 9

In this eighth event of our SASI Lunchbreak series, we will focus on the topic of AI powered Geospatial Solutions for Smarter Due Diligence.

06. October 2025

Register now to join the German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO) and the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chain Initiative (SASI) at ANUGA 2025 in Cologne on October 6th, from 11:00 to 13:00, for a panel discussion on “Living Income in Cocoa & Coffee Supply Chains: From Global Strategies to Retail Practice"

25. September 2025

DIASCA Forest Monitoring Webinar - From field data collection to open, public commodity maps

In this webinar, Bashara Abubakari, Senior Application Specialist at the Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS) of the University of Ghana, will present on a geolocation Campaign which collected more than 21,000 polygons of cocoa plots in Ghana.

05. September 2025

SASI Lunchbreak on supply chain due diligence act part 8

In this eighth event of our SASI Lunchbreak series, we will focus on the topic of Implementing Due Diligence through Biodiversity-Based Value Chains.

09. July 2025

DIASCA Round Table

This year, we’ve already hosted several engaging webinars, including sessions from the DIASCA Working Groups on Traceability & Governance, Living Income as well as on Forest Monitoring & Geodata. To give you a comprehensive insight into DIASCA’s work and ongoing projects, we warmly invite you to take part in our next round table!

04. July 2025

SASI Lunchbreak on supply chain due diligence act part 7

In this seventh event of our SASI Lunchbreak series, we will focus on enabling compliance of fair trade supply chains with new EU regulation.

03. July 2025

DIASCA Forest Monitoring Webinar - Insights from Nigeria & WHISP Deep Dive

In this webinar, our special guest Dr. Ralph Adewoye, a lead remote sensing scientist at the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, will present on the efforts undertaken by Nigerian stakeholders in the cocoa and palm oil sector to prepare for zero-deforestation compliance, considering the successes already achieved and the challenges still remaining.

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