Resources for Cocoa Professionals
GENERAL RESOURCES
- Latin America Baseline Cocoa Barometer (ENG).
Hütz-Adams, F., Campos, P., Fountain, A.C. (2022). - Barómetro del cacao - Base de referencía para Latinoamérica (ESP)
Hütz-Adams, F., Campos, P., Fountain, A.C. (2022) - Cocoa Barometer
VOICE Network. (2024). - Unpacking the EU Deforestation Regulation for the cocoa sector
European Forest Institute. (2023). - RDUE FR Subs 1 (FR)
Union européenne en Côte d'Ivoire. (2023). - El reglamento europeo sobre la deforestación y el sector del cacao
European Forest Institute. (2023).
TRACEABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY
- Technical Brief on Cocoa Traceability in West and Central Africa
IDH, GISCO, C-Lever. (2021). - Transparency and Accountability Towards building trust in the cocoa sector’s sustainability efforts
Dontenville, A., Sembres, T., Fountain, A.C. (2022).
LIVING INCOME
- Towards a Living Income for Cocoa Farmers in Ghana: Assessing companies’ efforts to date
Gneiting, U., Arhin, A. (2023) - Cocoa Farmers in Poverty Trap
Hütz-Adams, F. (2022). - A Living Income for Cocoa Producers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana?
van Vliet, J., Slingerland, M., Waarts, Y., Giller, K. (2021) - Fairtrade Living Income Reference Prices for Cocoa
Fairtrade. (2022). - Fairtrade Living Income Reference Prices for Cocoa
Fairtrade. (2019). - The Living Income
The Living Income Community of Practice. (2024). - Roadmap on Living Income
IDH. (2024). - BALANCING THE LIVING INCOME CHALLENGE
Waarts, Y. Kiewisch, M. (2021) - Necessary Farm Gate Prices for a Living Income
Fountain, A.C., Hütz-Adams, F. (2019) - Cocoa Living Income Compendium
Fountain, A.C. (2022) - Revenu vital et secteur du cacao : repères
Fountain, A.C. (2022)
Good Purchasing Practices Resources
- Good Purchasing Practices
Fountain, A.C. (2023) - Procurement Practices Principles
DISCO. (2024)
CHILD LABOR, FORCED LABOR & HUMAN TRAFFICKING
- Business Handbook on Due Diligence in the Cocoa Sector
OECD. (2023). - Annual Report
International Cocoa Initiative. (2021). - Ending child labor and promoting sustainable cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Zegers, M.C.R., Ayenor. G.K. (2021). - Cash transfers, resilience and child labour in Ghana
International Cocoa Initiative. (2022). - NORC Final Report: Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa Production in Cocoa Growing Areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
Sadhu, S., Kysia, K., Onyango, L., Zinnes, L., Lord, S., Monnard, A., Arellano, I. (2020).
DEFORESTATION AND CLIMATE
- Detecting cocoa plantations in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and their implications on protected area
Abu, I.O., Szantoi, Z., Brink, A., Robuchon, M., Thiel, M. (2021). - Sweet Nothings - How the Chocolate Industry has Failed to Honor Promises to End Deforestation for Cocoa in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana
Mighty Earth. (2022). - Rapid Response: Cocoa Accountability Map
Mighty Earth. (2024).
AGROFORESTRY
- Cocoa agroforestry library
Bennett, R., Hanchette, A. (2024). - Agroforestry in the cocoa sector - A need for ambitious collaborative landscape approaches
Sanial, E., Fountain, A.C., Hoefsloot H., Jezeer, R. (2020) - Why farmers, not industry, should decide the future of cocoa
Mawutor, S. (2022)
AGRICHEMICAL MANAGEMENT
- Pesticide Use in Cocoa
Bateman, R., Crozier, J. (2023) - Knowledge, perception, and pesticide application practices among smallholder cocoa farmers in four Ghanaian cocoa-growing regions
Boateng, K. O., Dankyi, E., Ampponsah, I. K., Awudzi, G. K., Amponsah, E., Darko, G. (2023). - Cocoa & Pesticides E-Library
Mawutor, S. (2022). - The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard
WHO. (2004). - International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management - Guidelines on Highly Hazardous Pesticides
FAO., WHO. (2016). - United Nations Environment Program - Rotterdam, Stockholm and Basel Conventions
UNEP. (2024).