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Blog post
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How to support the poorest farmers in commodity value chains
6 april 2020 | This blogpost was written by Yuca Waarts, Verina Ingram, Joost Guijt, Ken Giller, Maja Slingerland and Fédes van Rijn. -
How to ensure coffee, cocoa, cotton and tea farmers to earn a living income?
17 juni 2019 | Many parties have pledged that farmers in sectors such as the tea, cocoa, coffee and cotton are to earn a living income in the future. This, as...
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Rural livelihood & sustainability
If you decide to improve rural livelihoods as a way of enhancing your company’s sustainability performance, there is a lot you can do and... -
Agri commodities & sustainable landscapes
Retailers, food & beverage producers and consumers are increasingly demanding traceability information on product origins and sustainable... -
Incentives for change
The identification of feasible instruments for ensuring that agri-food systems are sustainable and inclusive requires better insights into the...
News
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Standardised methodology measures cocoa household income
3 april 2024 | Evidence-based strategies have to be designed to ensure cocoa farming households obtain a living income. How can data contribute? -
The importance of targeted approaches for resilient cocoa households
5 februari 2024 | Changing the scale of interventions is needed to achieve living income ambitions and household resilience for cacoa farmers in Côte... -
Yuca Waarts spoke about Living Income during the World Economic Forum in Davos
1 juni 2022 | “A while ago I was invited to give a lecture at the World Economic Forum in Davos. I immediately saw this as a wonderful opportunity. After all,... -
The dark side of our chocolate Easter eggs
15 april 2022 | Met Pasen voor de deur slaan we weer massaal chocolade paashazen en -eieren in. Toch verdienen de meeste cacaoboeren geen fatsoenlijk inkomen: van... -
Living income in cocoa
17 november 2021 | Nearly 75% of smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana and Ivory Coast currently do not earn a living income. There is need for a responsible transformation...