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This letter from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture serves to inform the Dutch House of Representitives of current initiatives in the area of promoting sustainable development in the cocoa sector.

This report contributes in various ways to the debate on a sustainable cocoa economy. A sustainable cocoa economy is where each person investing time or money into the supply chain would be able to earn a decent income for themselves and their family, work in good conditions, and in a manner...

Cocoa barometer 2010, TCC , 2010, The Hague, Netherlands, (2010)

Cocoa Barometer 2010 presents an analysis of the recent market developments in the certified cocoa sector and aims to fuel ongoing discussions on building capacity and training of cocoa farmers.An overview of recent trends and developments in the cocoa value chain is followed by a brief...

The challenge of connecting smallholders to dynamic markets is still a new field without proven replicable models and methodologies. Our worldwide search for best practice did provide interesting and inspiring material, but we are still far away from the public sector having anticipatory...

Sustainable procurement from developing countries : practices and challenges for businesses and support agencies, Boomsma, M. J. , Bulletin : Development Policy & Practice. ISSN 0922-7911, 2008, Amsterdam, (2008)

This book shows how sustainable procurement by Western companies in global value chains can be increased in such a way that all chain actors, including the poor, benefit. It presents three cases of businesses that procure supplies of ginger, mango, and citrus from Sierra Leone, Mali and South...

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