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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...
Eighty percent of the world’s 734 million poor people live in rural areas, and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Smallholder farmers managing less than 2...
The report Mobilizing Money and Movements: Creative finance for food systems transformation provides investors with a roadmap of creative finance strategies that support entrepreneurs, farmers, activists, and social...
In order to promote cocoa agroforestry by encouraging cocoa farmers to integrate fruit trees inside their cocoa orchards, cocoa certification was initially launched since 2012...
The challenge of ending child labour remains widespread around the world with 160 million children engaged in child labour. Approximately half of these children are engaged...
13 key principles for food systems transformation Preferentially use local renewable resources and close as far as possible resource cycles of nutrients and biomass. Input reduction...
The Dark Side of Chocolate: An analysis of the conventional, sustainable and fair trade cocoa chains
Based on the analysis of a large number of scientific articles, specialised reports and interviews, this study compares the societal costs of conventional cocoa chains with the results obtained within “sustainable”...
Fair trade (FT) schemes claim to improve food security by generating economic gains for certified households. Previous research has shown that FT-certified households may...