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The Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia generously provided the funding for the six-year project under the research strategy “Fortschritt NRW”, which aims to support research groups whose interdisciplinary projects focus on improving human livelihoods and wellbeing while safeguarding environmental resources as well as ensuring cultural, social and economic sustainability.
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The INCAE Business School, Latin America’s highest-ranked MBA program, is the University of Münster’s academic partner in the TRANS SUSTAIN project. During the course of their field work, TRANS SUSTAIN researchers are based at INCAE’s Costa Rica campus and enjoy the ability to connect with local researchers.
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The Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung implements projects that empower smallholder coffee farmers and strengthen their ability to independently achieve better livelihoods in Latin America, Africa and Asia. We work with them to analyze the impact of gender-focused programming in the Trifinio region of Central America.
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The Center for Sustainable Market Intelligence, based at INCAE Business School, has decades of experience evaluating sustainability programs in tropical value chains. The TRANS SUSTAIN team benefits from project design and implementation support through close collaboration and consultation with CIMS experts.
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