IDH Investment Management B.V.

IDH Investment Management B.V. (commonly known as IDH) is a Netherlands-based organization that describes itself as a publicly funded and government-mandated change agent working to transform agricultural markets. Its stated mission is to move agricultural markets toward a future with prosperous livelihoods, long-term supply security, and lasting environmental resilience. Rather than operating as a conventional asset manager, IDH functions as an orchestrator of change: it aligns interests among companies, farmers, governments, and donors, mobilises investment, and helps shape resilient food systems. The organization draws on nearly two decades of trusted experience and turns market insight and practical expertise into solutions anchored in sourcing practices, partnerships, and investment decisions. IDH works across global agricultural value chains, with a focus on emerging markets. Its activities span farming, forestry, fishing, and factories, organized around four impact agendas that cut across sectors, regions, and landscapes. The organization is active in areas such as food system autonomy, living wages, landscape initiatives, and supply chain resilience. It promotes blended finance solutions intended to protect forests, promote responsible land use, and empower smallholder farmers, aiming to reduce investment risk and align capital with purpose. IDH also convenes landscape initiatives, which it sees as a way to accelerate sustainable land management, increase farmer livelihoods, share risk, reduce costs, and create lasting change. Governance at IDH is structured around an Executive Board, a Supervisory Board, and an Impact Committee. The organization states that it adheres to high standards of good practices and transparency in governance and reporting, and it maintains a Governance Code, a Code of Conduct, an Environmental & Social Risks Management Policy, and a Competition Compliance Policy. It is registered in the Netherlands with KvK number 53521129 and RSDN number 850911916. IDH offers a SpeakUp system, run by an independent third party and available 24/7/365, for confidential reporting of potential misconduct in multiple languages. IDH's partnerships and programs are global in scope, and its communications emphasize outcomes that endure beyond its direct involvement. Success, in IDH's framing, is measured not by what happens during its involvement but by what continues to grow after it leaves. The organization maintains a Media Centre with press resources, factsheets, and brand assets, and it describes itself as having achieved significant results over the past 15 years. As a publicly funded entity, IDH operates with a mandate to address complex social and environmental challenges in agricultural markets while maintaining transparency and integrity in its work processes and work environment.

IDH Investment Management B.V. is a Netherlands-based organization that has operated for nearly two decades, according to its own account. It describes itself as a publicly funded and government-mandated change agent focused on transforming agricultural markets. Over time, IDH has built a portfolio of partnerships and programs that span farming, forestry, fishing, and factories, organized around four impact agendas that cut across sectors, regions, and landscapes. A significant part of IDH's history has involved convening landscape initiatives. The organization states that over the last 10 years of developing collaborative landscape initiatives, it has seen that they are not only a good way to accelerate sustainable land management and increase farmer livelihoods, but also an effective route to share risk, reduce costs, and create lasting change. This decade-long effort reflects IDH's broader approach of acting as an orchestrator that aligns interests, mobilises investment, and helps shape resilient food systems. IDH has also been active in advocacy and policy engagement. Following sustained advocacy by IDH and partners, the inclusion of living wages in the Second World Summit for Social Development Doha political declaration represented an important step toward turning commitments into concrete action. This milestone illustrates IDH's strategy of combining on-the-ground programs with efforts to influence broader policy frameworks. In recent years, IDH has emphasized investing in supply chain resilience across emerging markets. It notes that there is momentum to invest in blended finance solutions that protect forests, promote responsible land use, and empower smallholder farmers. IDH is working to shift the investment paradigm by reducing investment risk and aligning capital with purpose. This focus on blended finance is part of its effort to unlock the full potential of agricultural markets to address complex social and environmental challenges. Governance and transparency have been central to IDH's development. The organization maintains a Governance Code, which was formalised by the IDH Executive Board and approved by the IDH Supervisory Board on the 12th of March 2026. It also has a Code of Conduct, an Environmental & Social Risks Management Policy, and a Competition Compliance Policy. IDH is registered in the Netherlands with KvK number 53521129 and RSDN number 850911916. It operates a SpeakUp system, run by an independent third party and available 24/7/365, for confidential reporting of potential misconduct. IDH's communications emphasize that success is measured not by what happens during its involvement, but by what continues to grow after it leaves. The organization maintains a Media Centre with press resources, factsheets, and brand assets, and it states that it is proud of all that has been achieved in the past 15 years. As it continues to work with partners across the globe, IDH positions itself as a catalyst for food system autonomy and for strengthening agricultural markets as critical infrastructure.

• IDH has operated for nearly two decades, building partnerships across agricultural value chains.

• Over the last 10 years, IDH developed collaborative landscape initiatives to accelerate sustainable land management and increase farmer livelihoods.

• Following sustained advocacy by IDH and partners, living wages were included in the Second World Summit for Social Development Doha political declaration.

• IDH Governance Code was formalised by the IDH Executive Board and approved by the IDH Supervisory Board on 12 March 2026.

• IDH states it is proud of all that has been achieved in the past 15 years.

A publicly funded, government-mandated change agent that orchestrates partnerships and investment to transform agricultural markets toward sustainability and shared value.

• Blended finance solutions

  Investment approaches that reduce risk and align capital with purpose in emerging markets.

• Landscape initiatives

  Collaborative programs to accelerate sustainable land management and increase farmer livelihoods.

• Sustainable sourcing programs

  Programs anchored in sourcing practices, partnerships, and investment decisions.

• Supply chain resilience programs

  Efforts to protect forests, promote responsible land use, and empower smallholder farmers.

• 2026.08.11

  Reported2026.08.13

  IDH launches Resilient Coffee Program with Aldi Süd as frontrunner investor[6]IDH 启动韧性咖啡计划，Aldi Süd 成为领投方dailycoffeenews.com

  The Netherlands-based Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH launched the four-year Resilient Coffee Program (RCP), a pre-competitive investment platform aimed at reaching 300,000 farmers by 2030 across Vietnam, India, Colombia and Uganda, with a goal of about 500,000 metric tons of regenerative coffee annually. Aldi Süd Group was named the frontrunner investor; financial terms were not disclosed. The program is open to additional roasters, traders, governments and financiers.

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1. 1IDHidh.org
2. 2About IDHidh.org
3. 3Speak Up Policyidh.org
4. 4Our Policies and Codesidh.org
5. 5Wikidatawikidata.org
6. 6IDH 启动韧性咖啡计划，Aldi Süd 成为领投方dailycoffeenews.com