SAN is excited to welcome Alexander Wankel as Institutional Relations Coordinator, to strengthen the Secretariat’s capacity to build relationships and collaboration opportunities with potential clients and funders. Alexander has extensive experience supporting sustainable agriculture and rural livelihoods in South America through social entrepreneurship, responsible supply chains, and plant-based innovation. Prior to joining SAN, Alex co-founded a startup launching plant-based beverages that support regenerative smallholder farming in Peru. He learned a systems thinking approach to solving agr ..read more

  SAN’s Executive Director, José Joaquín Campos, attended CABI’s triennial Review Conference along with delegates from CABI’s member countries and other partners to agree on joint work plans around some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty. Participants at CABI’s Review Conference in the UK. Discussions explored the need to urgently improve the food security and livelihoods of smallholder communities around the world while fighting climate change, highlighting the importance of partnerships in addressing these strategic goals ..read more

  SAN member organization CABI launched its Plantwise program in 2011 and it has since then been introduced to 34 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The program’s main goal is to increase food security and improve rural livelihoods by helping farmers reduce crop losses due to plant health problems. The SAN management team recently met Yelitza Colmenarez and her team to identify synergies and discuss collaboration opportunities in Latin America. Besides being the Director of CABI’s center in Brazil, Colmenarez also coordinates the Plantwise program in Latin America and the Caribb ..read more

As a global collaborative network, we at the SAN Secretariat are constantly looking to evolve and build our capacity to shape the agriculture the world needs. This is why our team has grown in the past months to include top professionals in key areas. We are confident these new additions to our team will bring expert knowledge and passion to continue driving transformational change for food, nature and rural livelihoods. Andrew Hermann - Program Services Coordinator Andrew joined SAN in May 2022, and is our Program Services Coordinator in the Business Development Unit. Andrew has a background ..read more

Thanks to a consortium of key partners and the financial support of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the UK Government, SAN has launched the initial pilot phase of its signature program TerraViva in Colombia. Learn more Starting August 2022, TerraViva for Nature and People will run an inception phase aimed at testing its concept of developing a sustainable landscape management agenda in a rural community in Colombia, the world’s leading producer of washed Arabica coffee. What sets TerraViva apart? Unlike other landscape approaches, TerraViva recognizes local capacities ..read more

As the world continued to adapt to a new normal impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, SAN’s work kept proving itself more relevant than ever before. During 2021, we moved forward with our network members and strategic partners to deliver a positive impact in supply chains, farm ecosystems, and rural communities. Our 2021 Annual Report: Fostering global collaboration to regenerate our planet, showcases the work of a committed team and engaged partners and donors to address the issues of climate change, loss of biodiversity and poverty.  Download the 2021 Annual report here This has translated ..read more

  Over the last decades, many multistakeholder initiatives (MSI) have been established in almost every major industry to certify all sorts of commodities, with big corporations entering MSIs that try to address problems linked to their specific industries. By joining an MSI, these organizations agree to adhere to the agenda of that MSI, which often fails to actively involve the most vulnerable groups. SAN, along with numerous other international and local NGOs active in Germany, has signed a position and requirements document phrasing the need to be more inclusive with vulnerable groups a ..read more

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