Responsible business

Led by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Cordaid supports companies and their suppliers to become responsible corporate actors by ensuring decent work, living wages and environmental protection.

We also hold governments to account for their role in the field of responsible business, be it legislation, policy development or other stimulating measures.

Three-track approach

Our approach to increasing food security and strengthening agricultural livelihoods follows three tracks. We increase the technical and business capacities of smallholder farmers to produce sufficient and nutritious food for household consumption, while also earning an income from farming. We support low-income farmers and their organizations in accessing finance and markets, and, thus, increasing their income. And we pressure governments to implement policies that are favorable to farmers and producer organizations.