Resources

The Solidaridad Network, a partner of the International Cocoa Initiative, presents findings on the impact of MASO, a five-year programme focussed on creating employment opportunities for youth aged 18-25 in cocoa communities. The programme targeted 10,700 not-in-school youth living under the $2 per day poverty line in specific communities.

The study “No silver bullets”, carried out by Wageningen University and Research with Cocoa Life, Mondelez’s cocoa sustainability programme, presents insights to contribute to the discussion on Living Income for farmers.

This research, led by UNICEF, examines the impact of the United Republic of Tanzania’s Productive Social Safety Net. The programme provides cash transfers, conditional to be used on health and education services, to extremely poor households.

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.