Resources

This study by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the Bureau d’analyse sociétale pour une information citoyenne (BASIC) explores the distribution of value and costs along cocoa and chocolate supply chains. With a focus on the French market of dark and milk chocolate, confectionery bars and breakfast cocoa powder, it analyses cocoa grown in four producer countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Ecuador and Cameroon.

This study explores the principal factors that lead to changes in farmer practices, with the objective of improving company interventions in the cocoa sector in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

The United States Department of State has released the 20th edition of its Trafficking in Persons Report. This edition charts the progress made over the past 20 years by governments and other actors to fight against trafficking in persons.

Fairtrade Foundation and Mondelez carried out a mapping exercise to better understand the scope and scale of current sustainability initiatives designed to support cocoa farmer livelihoods in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

The International Labour Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund have released a new brief, Covid-19 and child labour: A time of crisis, a time to act, outlining the risk of a rise in child labour due to the Covid-19 pandemic.