The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. Created in 2002 at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children, GAIN supports public-private partnerships to increase access to the missing nutrients in diets...
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Organic cocoa production in Cameroon and Togo
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The emergence of strong organic brands and the entry of mainstream food corporations in the organic cocoa market reflected the growing market for organic cocoa. So far, Latin American and Caribbean countries have been the main producers of organic cocoa beans.
3. In response to this...
TCC - Cocoa Barometer 2010
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The Cocoa Barometer 2010 presents an analysis of the recent market developments in the certified cocoa sector and aims to fuel the ongoing discussions on building capacity and training of cocoa farmers.
The Cocoa Barometer 2010 was used to build shared understanding of the sustainability...
Increasing cocoa productivity through improved nutrition
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Cocoa is cultivated in more than 40 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Over 90% of global cocoa production cultivated by an estimated 5.5 million smallholders and most live below the poverty line and lack access to nutritious food. This concept brief analyzes cocoa production...
Rainforest Alliance Certification on Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire
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How do we know our work with cocoa farmers inis improving lives, lands and livelihoods?
Rainforest Alliance commissioned itself the Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) to conduct on-the-ground research in Côte d’Ivoire. In 2009, and again in 2011, COSA scientists collected...
Upgrading primary production: a global commodity chain approach
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Global commodity chain (GCC) analysis has been concerned mainly with examining power relations in global manufacturing industries, although it has been preoccupied increasingly by the question of how developing country (DC) producers can upgrade. This paper extends GCC analysis to ``traditional...
Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains
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This article has utilized some of the key concepts of convention theory to further our understanding of governance in global value chains. It has shown that the historical trend from hierarchical to tendentially looser forms of coordination between lead firms and their suppliers (or buyers), and...
Fair trade and child labor
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This article argues that fair trade labeling is more effective in combating child labor than previous approaches such as attempts at improving international compliance with human rights standards, levying of trade sanctions or boycotts, and increasing legislation and prosecution of crimes. The...
Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI)
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The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform was created by the food industry to actively support the development of and to communicate worldwide about sustainable agriculture involving the different stakeholders of the food chain. Members include major cocoa buyers such as Nestlé, ECOM...
Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy (documents)
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The Consultative Board on the World Cocoa Economy was inaugurated in December 2003 in order to encourage the active participation of experts from the private sector in the work of the Organization and to promote a continuous dialogue among experts from the public and private sectors. Since its...
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