Resources

This report presents research commissioned by the World Cocoa Foundation that explores the financial and business case for supporting Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs), a key part of cocoa sustainability strategies.

This paper steps back from dominant discourses around child labour, and examines how we can arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the forms, prevalence, drivers, and dynamics of child work - particularly work that is harmful. The authors aim to open space for new discourses, strategies, and interventions with which children’s harmful work in agriculture might be addressed.

This journal article, published in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, investigates the possibility of transitioning to a sustainable cocoa future, specifically in Cameroon.

The VOICE Network presents a consultation paper for the 2020 Cocoa Barometer. The paper suggests current living income reference prices are too low and lays out the Network’s recommendations to the cocoa industry regarding the setting of such price limits, among others.

The International Labour Organization (ILO), the OECD, IOM and UNICEF have published a report ‘Ending child labour, forced and human trafficking in global supply chains‘. The new report is launched as part of Alliance 8.7, a global partnership committed to ending child labour and modern slavery, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.