Solidaridad

CORPORATES AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTES IMPLEMENT SUSTAINABILITY POLICIES: We look for entrepreneurs and financial institutes who truly believe in inclusive shareholder models with the aim to redistribute the created wealth back to the beneficiaries as partnering shareholders. We also pilot and support new forms of engagements with corporations such as social enterprises, steward corporations, and hybrid enterprises. All with the aim to empower farmers and workers in obtaining capital assets, ownership, and ultimately more control over their own destiny. We will also encourage corporates to pay a true price: the market price, plus the unpaid external costs. This includes hidden costs like pollution, or negative effects of damage to the environment for future generations. True price should also guarantee a decent income for producers. This should be more than the official standards for living income which are often so low that people can hardly survive on it.

WORKERS HAVE DECENT WORKING CONDITIONS (IN AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY AND MINING) WITH FAIR PAYMENT: As a network organization, we have teams on the ground — near-by farms, processing units, and mines. They will offer training to governments, mines and factory management and farmers on healthy and safe workplaces, gender inclusion, and equal opportunities creation. We also organize dialogue platforms and negotiation tables on specific ILO-conventions with expert organizations. In collaboration with international organizations and regulators, we will create awareness on workers rights, and the need for paying a true living wage.

WORKERS HAVE DECENT WORKING CONDITIONS (IN AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY AND MINING) WITH FAIR PAYMENT: As a network organization, we have teams on the ground — near-by farms, processing units, and mines. They will offer training to governments, mines and factory management and farmers on healthy and safe workplaces, gender inclusion, and equal opportunities creation. We also organize dialogue platforms and negotiation tables on specific ILO-conventions with expert organizations. In collaboration with international organizations and regulators, we will create awareness on workers rights, and the need for paying a true living wage.

WORKERS HAVE DECENT WORKING CONDITIONS (IN AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY AND MINING) WITH FAIR PAYMENT: As a network organization, we have teams on the ground — near-by farms, processing units, and mines. They will offer training to governments, mines and factory management and farmers on healthy and safe workplaces, gender inclusion, and equal opportunities creation. We also organize dialogue platforms and negotiation tables on specific ILO-conventions with expert organizations. In collaboration with international organizations and regulators, we will create awareness on workers rights, and the need for paying a true living wage.

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AGENCIES SOURCE SUSTAINABLY PRODUCED FOOD PRODUCTS FOR HEALTHY DIETS FROM REGIONAL PRODUCERS: Public procurement covers a large part of the market. Governments and state-owned enterprises like hospitals and schools can be an important driver for sustainable production by purchasing sustainably produced goods, from nearby circular food systems. This will not only reward farmers and local food businesses, but also the health of many people on unhealthy diets in urban slums.

CITIZENS RAISE THEIR VOICE: Citizens can play an important role in pressuring the public and private sector. Solidaridad aims to mobilize, activate, and engage citizens to change norms about decent work, natural resource management, fair value distribution, and sustainable consumption and to influence the policy agenda on these topics. Solidaridad will do this through awareness raising campaigns, social movements and publications, addressing, for example, value distribution in the supply chains, gender norms, and production practices.

WORKERS IMPROVE EMPLOYABILITY: For many farmers, who only own small pieces of land, farming will never become a profitable business. Also, farm workers are among those struggling hard to survive and fear redundancy as a result of modernization. Despite all our efforts, some farmers and farm workers will need to find employability elsewhere. We want to help them with this. Therefore, we train and retrain workers to acquire new skill sets. The objective is to improve their overall employability towards high skilled, more decent, and better paid jobs. And by encouraging them to become business-savvy in developing and managing enterprises related to local food systems (see the local pathway) we can, in collaboration with investors and other business partners, create green jobs. This will create more value for their local communities, rather than giving it all away to far-distanced shareholders. Specific attention will be paid to youth in this area.

CONSUMERS ARE MOTIVATED TO PURCHASE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS: Consumer spending drives almost 70 percent of the economy of high-income countries. A growing group of consumers in Europe, Japan, and the US say they want to buy from purpose-driven brands that support sustainability. This has led to a growth in sustainability labels. However, the vast majority are not consistently shopping in line with these values. It is our job as sustainbility professionals to carve out a new, clear path so that people can shop in a way aligned with their preferences for a sustainable, healthy planet. To this end, we will develop campaigns and provide information aimed at increasing awareness and knowledge about sustainable products among consumers in high- income countries. Reputation plays an important role here, and media engagement and public campaigns will help to publicly praise brands that are well on their way, while calling upon those who need to change faster.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To prevent further degradation of soils, we will support farmers transitioning towards more resource-efficient, circular, and re-generative production methods. To protect our water quality, we will support farmers to improve water quality, reuse wastewater, and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from agriculture. For clean air, we will organize learning and exchange on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins in production.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To mitigate the effects of climate change, we will promote ways of agriculture that sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptive capacity, and reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions where possible. We will also promote climate smart practices that store more carbon dioxides, for example by using tree cover practices. We want to promote circular approaches to agriculture and help farmers to decrease their dependency on pesticides and antimicrobials, reduce excess fertilisation, increase organic farming, improve animal welfare, and reverse biodiversity loss.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To mitigate the effects of climate change, we will promote ways of agriculture that sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptive capacity, and reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions where possible. We will also promote climate smart practices that store more carbon dioxides, for example by using tree cover practices. We want to promote circular approaches to agriculture and help farmers to decrease their dependency on pesticides and antimicrobials, reduce excess fertilisation, increase organic farming, improve animal welfare, and reverse biodiversity loss.

PROCESSORS REDUCE POLLUTION AND WASTE IN INDUSTRY AND MINING: Solidaridad supports processors, such as miners, or processors in the leather or textiles industry, to implement more efficient methods to reduce pollution of soil, water, and air. We support processors to improve water quality and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from their activities. We train service suppliers to treat and reuse wastewater and organize matchmaking with factories, mills or mines. Water efficiency expertise to address scarcity is being organized from around the globe via the broad network of Solidaridad contacts. And just as with farmers, we also organize learning and exchange for processors on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins. Solidaridad also looks for options with processors to intensify the use of local renewable energy away from deforested charcoal and other highly air-polluting emitters.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To prevent further degradation of soils, we will support farmers transitioning towards more resource-efficient, circular, and re-generative production methods. To protect our water quality, we will support farmers to improve water quality, reuse wastewater, and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from agriculture. For clean air, we will organize learning and exchange on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins in production.

PROCESSORS REDUCE POLLUTION AND WASTE IN INDUSTRY AND MINING: Solidaridad supports processors, such as miners, or processors in the leather or textiles industry, to implement more efficient methods to reduce pollution of soil, water, and air. We support processors to improve water quality and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from their activities. We train service suppliers to treat and reuse wastewater and organize matchmaking with factories, mills or mines. Water efficiency expertise to address scarcity is being organized from around the globe via the broad network of Solidaridad contacts. And just as with farmers, we also organize learning and exchange for processors on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins. Solidaridad also looks for options with processors to intensify the use of local renewable energy away from deforested charcoal and other highly air-polluting emitters.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To prevent further degradation of soils, we will support farmers transitioning towards more resource-efficient, circular, and re-generative production methods. To protect our water quality, we will support farmers to improve water quality, reuse wastewater, and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from agriculture. For clean air, we will organize learning and exchange on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins in production.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To prevent further degradation of soils, we will support farmers transitioning towards more resource-efficient, circular, and re-generative production methods. To protect our water quality, we will support farmers to improve water quality, reuse wastewater, and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from agriculture. For clean air, we will organize learning and exchange on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins in production.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To mitigate the effects of climate change, we will promote ways of agriculture that sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptive capacity, and reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions where possible. We will also promote climate smart practices that store more carbon dioxides, for example by using tree cover practices. We want to promote circular approaches to agriculture and help farmers to decrease their dependency on pesticides and antimicrobials, reduce excess fertilisation, increase organic farming, improve animal welfare, and reverse biodiversity loss.

PROCESSORS REDUCE POLLUTION AND WASTE IN INDUSTRY AND MINING: Solidaridad supports processors, such as miners, or processors in the leather or textiles industry, to implement more efficient methods to reduce pollution of soil, water, and air. We support processors to improve water quality and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from their activities. We train service suppliers to treat and reuse wastewater and organize matchmaking with factories, mills or mines. Water efficiency expertise to address scarcity is being organized from around the globe via the broad network of Solidaridad contacts. And just as with farmers, we also organize learning and exchange for processors on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins. Solidaridad also looks for options with processors to intensify the use of local renewable energy away from deforested charcoal and other highly air-polluting emitters.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To mitigate the effects of climate change, we will promote ways of agriculture that sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptive capacity, and reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions where possible. We will also promote climate smart practices that store more carbon dioxides, for example by using tree cover practices. We want to promote circular approaches to agriculture and help farmers to decrease their dependency on pesticides and antimicrobials, reduce excess fertilisation, increase organic farming, improve animal welfare, and reverse biodiversity loss.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To mitigate the effects of climate change, we will promote ways of agriculture that sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptive capacity, and reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions where possible. We will also promote climate smart practices that store more carbon dioxides, for example by using tree cover practices. We want to promote circular approaches to agriculture and help farmers to decrease their dependency on pesticides and antimicrobials, reduce excess fertilisation, increase organic farming, improve animal welfare, and reverse biodiversity loss.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To prevent further degradation of soils, we will support farmers transitioning towards more resource-efficient, circular, and re-generative production methods. To protect our water quality, we will support farmers to improve water quality, reuse wastewater, and minimize the release of hazardous chemicals from agriculture. For clean air, we will organize learning and exchange on how to reduce harmful emissions, disposals and toxins in production.

FARMERS PRODUCE IN BALANCE WITH NATURE: To mitigate the effects of climate change, we will promote ways of agriculture that sustainably increase productivity, enhance adaptive capacity, and reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions where possible. We will also promote climate smart practices that store more carbon dioxides, for example by using tree cover practices. We want to promote circular approaches to agriculture and help farmers to decrease their dependency on pesticides and antimicrobials, reduce excess fertilisation, increase organic farming, improve animal welfare, and reverse biodiversity loss.

WORKERS IMPROVE EMPLOYABILITY: For many farmers, who only own small pieces of land, farming will never become a profitable business. Also, farm workers are among those struggling hard to survive and fear redundancy as a result of modernization. Despite all our efforts, some farmers and farm workers will need to find employability elsewhere. We want to help them with this. Therefore, we train and retrain workers to acquire new skill sets. The objective is to improve their overall employability towards high skilled, more decent, and better paid jobs. And by encouraging them to become business-savvy in developing and managing enterprises related to local food systems (see the local pathway) we can, in collaboration with investors and other business partners, create green jobs. This will create more value for their local communities, rather than giving it all away to far-distanced shareholders. Specific attention will be paid to youth in this area.