IDH (°2008) is an international organisation that brings together public and private stakeholders to make global agricultural markets more sustainable and inclusive. In collaboration with its partners, IDH develops solutions to critical challenges in global value chains, such as climate change, unfair working conditions and wages, unequal value distribution, and gender inequality.
Markets have the power to make trade more inclusive and sustainable. However, they are often driven by short-term profit maximisation, which can jeopardise both people and the planet. Conscious intervention is necessary to shift the private sector’s focus toward long-term goals that benefit the public good. Achieving this requires an integrated approach that considers impacts across multiple areas. IDH plays a key role in facilitating this transformation.
Through a unique approach of convening, co-creating, and co-financing, IDH designs integrated solutions that transform markets, leading to better jobs, better incomes, and a healthier environment. The organisation actively collaborates with the private sector to improve business practices, catalyse investments, and strengthen landscape governance.
How IDH is Transforming Markets Through an Integrated Approach
- Improving Business Practices: IDH promotes sustainable and inclusive business practices across value chains, ensuring that sustainability is fully integrated into corporate strategies rather than addressed in a fragmented manner.
- Improving Sector Governance: By facilitating collaboration among governments, companies, and civil society, IDH helps establish supportive policies and frameworks that drive market transformation and equitable value distribution.
- Catalysing Investments: IDH closes financing gaps for smallholders and Agri-SMEs through innovative financial models, de-risking investments, and unlocking capital for sustainable agricultural projects.
- Data & Insights: A data-driven approach enables IDH to generate actionable insights, ensuring transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making for sustainable market transformations.
- Convening & Partnerships: IDH brings together diverse stakeholders to co-create solutions, build trust, and drive systemic change across sectors and landscapes.
A Legacy of Impact
Over the past 15 years, IDH has achieved significant progress in transforming markets and driving sustainability in global value chains.
Code of Conduct
Guided by the core values of courage, integrity, and inclusivity, IDH’s Code of Conduct serves as a moral compass for its global operations. It outlines concrete behaviours and actions in daily work and applies to all relationships, including those with colleagues, partners, suppliers, and donors.
Leadership
IDH is led by an Executive Board and a Global Management Team, supported and advised by a Supervisory Board. Together, they empower individuals to take meaningful action in creating a better world for both people and the planet.
Source: IDH
