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Pierre Etoa presentation.pdf (880.73 KB) What challenges are facing Cocoa internationally?
Riding the wave of sustainable commodity sourcing – Review of the Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH 2008-2013 (1).pdf (1.58 MB) The Sustainable Trade Initiative IDH (Initiatief Duurzame Handel) was set up in 2008 on the initiative of the Dutch government, private companies, NGOs and trade unions. The aim was to improve the economic, social and environmental sustainability of production systems in developing countries,...
Monitoring and estimating the consumption of certified sustainable coffee and cocoa in the netherlands.pdf (1017.33 KB) In 2010, the Dutch coffee industry initiated the Letter of Intent as a result of its wish to coordinate the efforts to find how the coffee value chain (from tree to cup) can be made more sustainable. The letter of intent was supported by the Dutch government, IDH, a number of certification...
cocoa and cotton.pdf (255.5 KB) This publication on cocoa and cotton in West-Africa by
In 1992 the leaders of the world came together at the first Rio Earth summit, historically acknowledging the imperative of a needs based approach to sustainable development. Although agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration made a call upon all citizens of the world to play a role in ensuring...
Over the past decade Fair Trade (FT) has been praised as the miracle-cure to poverty globally, by securing a better deal for marginalised farmers and creating community development, while respecting the environment. In that sense, FT can seem to be in the scope of social entrepreneurship (SE) by...
While there are valid reasons for a renewed interest in adapting the lessons of the Asian Green Revolution to the African setting, research must go further in identifying the main, and potentially unique, drivers of agricultural intensification within and across African countries. In this study...
A nursery experiment was conducted between November, 2011 and May, 2012 at the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana to investigate the effect of using river sand and river sand-topsoil mixture on cocoa seedlings. Treatments tested were sole topsoil, sole river sand, river sand + foliar fertilizer (...
Apply life cycle management of Colombian cocoa production.pdf (525.13 KB) The present research aims to evaluate the usefulness of the application of Life Cycle Management in the agricultural sector focusing on the environmental and socio-economic aspects of decision making in the Colombian cocoa production. Such appraisal is based on the application of two...
Follow-up study report on CCE pilot cocoa certification initiatives In Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria.PDF (1.08 MB) The CCE (Certification Capacity Enhancement) project is a multi-stakeholder initiative between the development agencies GIZ, the Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), Solidaridad, the voluntary standards organizations Fairtrade International (FLO), Rainforest Alliance and UTZ Certified, and...
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