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Highlights: Poverty among cocoa farmers is a challenge in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. The LID policy aims to mitigate poverty among cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana...

Highlights: One of Fairtrade’s most prominent products is cocoa. Fairtrade is pushing the sector to address the many challenges that endanger the long-term sustainability of cocoa and the people behind it...

This is an online resource from the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) dedicated to a “Living Income”. WUR aims to contribute to achieve a living income for the millions of people working in agriculture...

The story of global agriculture is largely one of small farms, as small-scale operations account for 90% of the 570 million farms around the world and are responsible for a notable share...

Overall, in the four sampled countries, small producers of cocoa remain rather poor and cocoa cannot be their only sufficient source of revenues. However, their...

Food systems analysis is increasingly being applied to understand relations between production, distribution, and consumption of food products, the drivers that influence the system, and the outcomes that show how...

Many sources indicate that smallholder tree-crop commodity farmers are poor, but there is a paucity of data on how many of them are poor and the depth of poverty. The living...

Background Food security is a major development concern worldwide. The use of arable lands to grow cash crops raises additional concerns, yet empirical evidence on...

Food system analysis is used to understand relations between the production, distribution, and consumption of agricultural products. Many export commodities commodities are facing “consumer concerns”...

The EU, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and the cocoa sector have today agreed to step up work on making cocoa more sustainable. At today’s high-level event of the sustainable cocoa...