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...
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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...
Commodities under neoliberalism: the case of cocoa
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The paper examines the case of cocoa as an illustration of the problems faced by primary commodity producers and attempts to show that the conditions are favourable for cocoa producers to coordinate their production policies in order to maintain satisfactory cocoa prices, which is needed to...
Indirect taxes and custom tariffs on cocoa beans and cocoa semi-finished products
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The present document highlights the impact of import tariffs and VAT on the cocoa value chain. Furthermore, it reviews the incidence of indirect taxes and custom duties on cocoa beans, cocoa liquor, cocoa cake, cocoa butter, and cocoa powder. This document does not cover indirect taxes and...
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...
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...
Cocoa cycles: the economics of cocoa supply
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The cyclical boom-to-recession nature of the economics of cocoa supply is a major problem for the international cocoa industry - and especially for countries whose economies depend on cocoa exports. Only through an understanding of the dynamics of cocoa cycles can policy decisions be made...
Market transformation strategy for cocoa
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The BACP Market Transformation Strategy for Cocoa defines the priorities along which BACP will allocate funds for cocoa projects in the first five years of implementation (a second five-year phase is expected to follow). The ultimate goal of the program is to contribute to the preservation of...
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...
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