The Central Highlands of Vietnam is home to 95% of all coffee production in Vietnam, making the Central Highlands the second-largest coffee producer and exporter in the world.
Over time, the Central Highlands began to be a victim of its own success. As production grew, pressure on natural resources also increased: leading to a diminishing water supply, deforestation and land degradation.
In 2013, IDH - The Sustainable Trade Initiative offered its support to deal with the challenges of sustainable agricultural production.
At the start of the program, the partnership worked with a small number of farms on certification. Thousands of farmers achieved sustainability certification for their farms and coffee products.
After three years, it became clear that coffee is not the only commodity affecting the communities and environment, but pepper, too. The Central Highlands needed an integrated solution for irrigation, management of inputs and buffer zones.
The solution? A mini-landscape. It started with 70 hectares in Ea Tan commune of Dak Lak Province. A cluster of 56 households worked together to rehabilitate community lakes, test new irrigation techniques and set up agroforestry systems.
The program was scaled up from commune to commune, then from district to district, then from province to province, with:
• field training
• economical watering models
• agroforestry
• soil analysis
• recommendations for appropriate and safe use of fertilizers and chemicals
In 2019, three Compacts were established in Krong Nang district (Dak Lak province), Lac Duong and Di Linh district (Lam Dong province). The program is set to scale up.
Real change is visible today in the Central Highlands. While 15% of farmers practiced intercropping in the program area in 2015, by 2020, this number had reached 96%.
Coffee from the selected area had been produced with 20% less water, 14% of reduced chemical fertilizer use and zero use of banned pesticides. Farmers in the area earned 20% higher income compared with farmers outside the area covering more than 10,000 ha of coffee and intercrop production. A study found that intercropping and reducing fertilizer had resulted in lower greenhouse gas emissions from coffee farms in the area. The coffee had 60% less carbon emissions in 2019/20 compared to 2015/16.
Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) has become the first company to use new supply chain sustainability solution SourceUp to make a coffee sourcing commitment.
The participation of local authorities, companies, partner organizations, and financial support from UNDP and the VNSAT program of the World Bank, were key to the success of the landscape program.
The partnership is working to become a Verified Sourcing Area.
A Verified Sourcing Area is a local partnership in a commodity-producing area, that makes its sustainability metrics transparent through an international platform called SourceUp. By undergoing assessment by a SourceUp panel, the Central Highlands hopes to gain international acclaim for its sustainable production systems.
Interviewees:
Ms. Tran Quynh Chi, Regional Director Asia Landscape IDH
Do Ngoc Sy, Sustainability Manager Asia and the Pacific - Jacobs Douwe Egberts
Le Ngoc Toan, Farmer
Duong Xuan Tien, Farmer
Nguyen Tien Dung, Sustainability Manager, Simexco Dak Lak
Learn more about IDH's Landscape Approach in the Central Highlands: https://www.idhsustainabletrade.com/l...
Learn more about IDH's Landscapes program: https://www.idhsustainabletrade.com/l...
Learn more about SourceUp: https://sourceup.org/
The IDH Landscape Program is possible thanks to our donors, the Governments of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark.
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