Studies & Reports - Forum Nachhaltiger Kakao

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Overview of studies

Project PRO-PLANTEURS

Reports

Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic
2018	Gender Workshop Summary (ENG)	Pro-Planteurs	Workshop, Gender

Studies

Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic

2017	Evaluation de l'application du contenu des formations pour l'amelioration de la production de cacao (FRZ)	Pro-Planteurs	Education, Cocoa Production
	Étude des opportunités de marché des cultures vivrières (FRZ)	Pro-Planteurs	Market Conditions, Food Crops
	Study on the cost structure and access to financing of the cooperatives of the project PRO-PLANTEURS (EN) Summary (EN) Etude sur la structure des coûts et l'accès au financement des sociétés coopératives du projet PRO-PLANTEURS (FRZ)	devImpact	Price Study
2016	Baseline Report for the Project PRO-PLANTEURS (EN) Baseline Report Summary (EN) Étude de base PRO-PLANTEURS (FRZ)	ComoConsult	General Conditions

More Studies from the Cocoa Sector

2019

Date

Title & Link

Publisher

Topic

November

Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Kakaoanbau - Warum wir ein Lieferkettengesetz brauchen

INKOTA-netzwerk

Human Rights

November

A living income for smallholder
commodity farmers and protected
forests and biodiversity: how can the
private and public sectors contribute?

Wageningen University

Living Income

October

For a cocoa without deforestation: performance of labels and company actions

Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)

Cocoa, Deforestation

October

Les chaînes de valeur agricoles au défi de la biodiversité : l’exemple du cacao-chocolat

Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)

Cocoa value chain, biodiversity

July

Up to standard: Third-party certification and company programmes compared

Lumina Intelligence

Certification

June

Estimating the economic incentives necessary for eliminating child labor in Ghanaian cocoa production

Luckstead et al.

Child labour, Ghana

Towards sustainable cocoa supply chains: Regulatory options for the EU

fern

EU action plan, sustainable supply chains

Agricultural Commodity Traders in Switzerland – Benefitting from Misery?

Public Eye

agricultural commodities

January

“Competition Law and Sustainability: A Study of Industry Attitudes Towards Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in the UK Grocery Sector”

Fairtrade Foundation

competition law, sustainable supply chains

Living Income Report: Rural Côte d'Ivoire

Living Income Community of Practice

Living Income, Côte d'Ivoire

2018

Date

Title & Link

Publisher

Topic

December

Producing sustainable cocoa: Under what conditions?

IDDRI

Sustainable Cocoa Production

December

Ending child labour by 2025: A review of policies and programmes

International Labour Organization

Child Labour, Exploitation

Behind The Wrapper: Greenwashing in the Chocolate Industry

Mighty Earth

Deforestation, Côte d'Ivoire

November

The Impacts of Cocoa Sustainability Initiatives in West Africa

MDPI

Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS), Public Private Partnerships

November

What Works To Increase Smallholder Farmers' Income

Farmer Income Lab

Living Income

October

Combatting Child Labour in Cocoa Production

GES

Living Income, Child Labour

The prevalence of forced labour & child labour in the cocoa sectors of Côte d’Ivoire & Ghana

Walk Free Foundation

child labour, exploitation, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire

September

Living Income Report: Rural Ghana

Living Income Community of Practice

Living Income, Ghana

2018 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor

U.S. Department of Labor

child labor, exploitation

2017 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

U.S. Department of Labor

child labor, exploitation

August

Demystifying the cocoa sector in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire

KIT

Cocoa, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana

n/a

The Global Business of Forced Labour: Report of Findings

SPERI

Cocoa, Tea, Supply chain

July

Understanding certified smallproducers' needs: Interviews with certified producers to understand their needs and how sustainability standards can innovate to meet them.

ISEAL Alliance

Small producer, Certification, Côte d'Ivoire

Putting children first: International Cocoa Initiative 2017 Annual Report 2017

ICI

Child labour, Education

Pour que demain ne meure jamais: La Côte d'Ivoire face au changement climatique

World Bank

Climatechange, Côte d'Ivoire

Ripe for Change: Ending human suffering in supermarket supply chains (Report and Summary)

Oxfam

Income, Poverty

June

Pratique cacaoyère, délitement de l'accès au foncier et sécurité alimentaire dans la sous-préfecture de Dania (Centre-Ouest de la Côte d'Ivoire) (FRZ)

Tropicultura

Cocoa, Alimentation

The Dark Side of Chocolate

BASIC

Cocoa, Supply Chain, Côte d'Ivoire, Peru

Dynamique d'expansion des cacaoyères dans les zones de contact forêt-savane: cas de la sous-préfecture de Kokumbo (Centre de la Côte d'Ivoire) (FRZ)

Tropicultura

Cocoa, Rural and regional development

May

Understanding agribusiness-based advisory services (Summary)

Understanding agribusiness-based advisory services: Findings of a learning trajectory

KIT

Agribusiness development

Rapport d'audit du systeme de commercialisation du cacao

KPMG

Trade, Price, Côte d'Ivoire

Follow up Study - Assessing the Impact of Fairtrade on Poverty Reduction through Rural Development

CEval GmbH, Fairtrade

Poverty, Rural development, Fairtrade

April

Fair Value: Case studies of business structures for a more equitable distribution of value in food supply chains.

3keel, Oxfam

Food system, Value chains

Harnessing the chances of digitalisation for rural development

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Rural development, Digitalisation

Cocoa Farmer Income

True Price, Fairtrade International

Income, Strategies and improvement

Cocoa Barometer

Cocoa Barometer Summary

Cocoa Barometer Konsortium

Sustainable development in the cocoa sector, Income, Transparency, Responsibility, West Africa

March

Voluntary Climate Neutrality in the Private Sector. Key to stay within the 2°C target.

Senat der Wirtschaft

Climate, Neutral, Private Sector, Goals

Feasibility Study on Options to step up EU Actions against Deforestration

European Union

Deforestration, Trade, Initiatives

January

Pricing in the cocoa value chain - causes and effects

Prix dans la chaîne de valeur du cacao - causes et effets (FRZ)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) und Südwind

Cocoa price, General conditions, Market development

2017

Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic
December	Driving Innovations in Smallholder Engagement - Insights in Service Delivery and Finance	IDH	Innovations, Finance, Engagement
	Evaluation de l'application du contenu des formations pour l'amelioration de la production de cacao	PRO-PLANTEURS	Poductivity
	Étude des opportunités de marché des cultures vivrières	PRO-PLANTEURS	Market development
November	Global Estimates of Child Labour: Results and Trends, 2012-2016	International Labour Organization	Child Labour
October	Tackling Child Labour - 2017 Report	Nestlé Cocoa Plan	Child Labour
September	Study on the Cost Structure and Access to Financing of the Cooperatives of the Project PRO-PLANTEURS	devImpact	Financing
August	Chocolate and the Consumption of Forests: Cross-National Examination of Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Cocoa Exports	Journal of World-Systems Research	Environment
	Alternative Geschäftsmodelle im Kakaosektor	Südwind	Market Development, General Conditions, Cocoa price, Income, Diversity
July	Forest Friendly Cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire	UNDP, GCP, Mondelez	Environment
June	The State of Sustainable Markets 2017: Statistics and Emerging Trends	International Trade Centre	Certification, Market Development
	Profit mit Nachhaltigkeit? Die Rolle der Privatwirtschaft in Entwicklungsländern	Südwind	Sustainable Development Goals, Privatinvestitionen, Private-Public Partnerships
	Combatting Child Labour in Cocoa: Investor Expectations and Corporate Good Practice	GES International	Child Labour, Income, Private Investment
March	Eliminating Deforestation from the Cocoa Supply Chain	World Bank	Environment
	National Survey and Segmentation of Smallholder Households in Côte d’Ivoire	CGAP, World Bank	Income
	The business benefits of using sustainability standards	ISEAL Alliance	Certification
February	Cocoa Farmer's agricultural practices and livelihoods in Côte d'Ivoire	Barry Callebaut	Income, Produtivity
January	Afrika und Europa - Neue Partnerschaft für Entwicklung, Frieden und Zukunft	BMZ	General conditions
	Entwaldungsfreie Lieferketten - Gemeinsam zum Waldschutz beitragen	WWF, BMZ	Environment

2016

Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic
December	Strengthening the competitiveness of cocoa production and improving the income of cocoa producers in West and Central Africa / Renforcer la compétitivité de la production de cacao et augmenter le revenu des producteurs de cacao en Afrique de l’Ouest et en Afrique centrale	Südwind	Income, Productivity
December	Study on the state of farmer cooperatives in the cocoa sector of Côte d‘Ivoire	GEFAK	Farmers Organisations
November	Demystifying the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana	KIT Royal Tropical Institute	General Conditions, Quality
November	Market Concentration and Price Formation in the Global Cocoa Value Chain Appendix: Determination of Cocoa Prices in Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia	Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands, SEO Amsterdam Economics	Market development, Cocoa price
November	Baseline Study PRO-PLANTEURS / Étude de base PRO-PLANTEURS	Como Consult	General Conditions
July	Sustainability Now!	European Political Strategy Center	Market development, General Conditions
July	Emerging Opportunities in the West African Food Economy	OECD	Market development, General Conditions
June	Study on the Establishment of a Cocoa Sustainability Fund	Südwind	Market development
June	Trafficking in Persons Report	US Department of State	Slavery
Mai	Nachhaltigkeitssiegel	Stiftung Warentest	Certification
March	UTZ Impact Report: Combining insights from UTZ monitoring data with findings from impact studies	UTZ	Countries of Production, Cocoa, Coffee, Tea
	Women's Rights in the Cocoa Sector	Oxfam	Women's Role, Cocoa Sector
Februar	Cacao Cultivation under Diverse Shade Tree Cover Allows High Carbon Storage and Sequestration without Yield Losses	Plant Ecology and Ecosystems Research, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen	Cultivation
Januar	The cocoa bean fermentation process: from ecosystem analysis to starter culture development	Journal of Applied Microbiology	Production
n/a	Evaluation of different fermentation processes for use by small cocoa growers in mexico	Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Mexico	Production
n/a	Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics	International Cocoa Organisation	Cocoa price, Market development
n/a	Leveraging the Vertical: The Contested Dynamics of Sustainability Standards and Labour in Global Production Networks	ESADE-Ramon Llull University, Barcelona	Certification
n/a	The True Price of Cocoa from Ivory Coast	IDH, True Price	Certification, Environment, Income
n/a	Children at the heart; Assessment of child labour and child slavery in CdI´s cocoa sector and recommendations to Mondelez International	Embode	Childlabour
n/a	Côte d'Ivoire - Rapport d'état sur le système éducatif national. Pour une politique éducative plus inclusive et plus efficace. (FRZ)	Gouvernment Côte d'Ivoire, UNICEF, IIPE, UNSECO	Politics, Education
n/a	Researching the Impact of Increased Cocoa Yields on the Labour Market and Child Labour Risk in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire	ICI	Cocoa, Child Labour, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire
n/a	Human Development Report 2016: Briefing note for countries on the 2016 Human Development Report	UNDP	Human Development Index, Côte d'Ivoire

2015

Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic
December	Impact of UTZ certification on cocoa producers in Ghana, 2011 to 2014	LEI	UTZ, Certification, Cocoa, Ghana
December	EINEWELT ohne Hunger ist möglich - Lösungsansätze der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik	BMZ	General Conditions
November	Looking within the household: a study on gender, food security, and resilience in cocoa-growing communities	Oxfam GB, Routledge	Womans role
November	Agrobiodiversity – the key to food security, climate adaptation and resilience	GIZ	Environment
September	Findings from Studies in 11 Countries and Implications for our Future Work on Rural Development	Nestlé	Rural Development
July	Situational Assessment of Women and Youth Farmers and Family Nutrional Status in Two Cocoa Producing Communities in Côte d'Ivoire	Fair Labor Association	Nutrition, Womans role
July	Survey Research on Child Labour in the West African Cocoa Growing Areas	Tulane Universität	Child Labour
July	Enquete sur le niveau de vie des menages en Côte d'Ivoire (FRZ)	INS	Households, Côte d'Ivoire
June	Kakaobarometer	Cocoa Barometer Konsortium	Market development, Subsitence Income
April	Cocoa industry: Integrating small farmers into the global value chain	Unctad	Market development, General Conditions
March	CocoaAction Progress Report	World Cocoa Foundation	Productivity
March	Cocoa farming and primate extirpation inside Cote d’Ivoire’s protected areas	Tropical Conservation Science	Environment
March	Das Leitbild vom Verbraucher: unmündiger oder aufgeklärter Konsument?	Wissenschaftlicher Pressedienst (WPD)	Consumer Model
n/a	The State of Sustainable Markets	International Trade Center	Certification
n/a	Beyond Certification	Do Sustainability	Certification
n/a	Cocoa Action Annual Report 2015	World Cocoa Foundation	Market development
n/a	Handbook for monitoring and evaluation of child labour in agriculture. Measuring the impacts of agricultural and food security programmes on child labour in family-based agriculture	FAO	Child Labour

2014

Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic
November	Zukunft der Süßwarenindustrie	Hans Böckler Stiftung	Market development
November	Enquête nationale sur la situation de l’emploi et du travail des enfants (ENSETE 2013)	International Labor Organisation	Child labour
October	Oxfam analysis and recommendations to Mars, Mondelez, and Nestle on gender equality in the cocoa sector	Oxfam	Womans role
July	Assesing Women’s roles in Nestlé’s Ivory Coast Cocoa Supply Chain	Fair Labor Association	Womans role
June	12 Jahre, Sklave	terre des hommes	Child labour
June	Impact of UTZ Certification of cocoa in Ivory Coast	LEI Wageningen UR , UTZ	Certification
May	Behind the Brands	Oxfam	Certifikation
April	Cocoa Market Update April 2014	WCF	Market development, Cocoa pricing, Productivity
March	Zur Plausibilität der Best Practice Kriterien – Eine Literaturrecherche	Südwind	Certification, Income
January	Follow - up study report on CCE pilot cocoa certification initiatives In Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria	CCE, Frank Kuklinski	Productivity, Training
January	UTZ CERTIFIED IMPACT REPORT	UTZ	Certification
January	Toolbox for Promoting Innovation Systems	GIZ	Innovations
n/a	Fairtrade Kakao in Westafrika	Fairtrade	Certification
n/a	Cocoa Sustainability Report	Barry Callebaut	Market development, general conditions, Farmerorganisations
n/a	Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics	International Cocoa Organisation	Cocoa price, Market development

2013


Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic
December	Nicht nur Öl: Kakaoanbau in Nigeria	Südwind	Cocoa Price, Child Labour, Womans Role, Environment
October	Economic and financial assessment of premiums for the adoption of Rainforest Alliance Certification scheme by farmers in the bia conservation area of Ghana	Conservation Alliance international	Certification, Productivity
October	Improving smallholder livelihoods: Effectiveness of certification in coffee, cocoa and cotton	KMPG, SUSTAINEO	Certification
October	Flächenkonkurrenz – das Beispiel Kakao	Südwind	General Conditions, Market development
September	3. Kakao–Konferenz: Der lange Weg zur nachhaltigen Produktion Veranstaltungsdokumentation	GIZ	General Conditions, Market development, Productivity
June	Nachhaltigkeit in der Kakao - und Süßwarenindustrie: Chance oder Trugschluss?	ASTM, Action Solidarite tiers monde	General Conditions
March	Zone centrale de cultures de rente: Population autochtone et population allogène/allochtone (FRZ)	ACF	Population, Cash Crops
February	Baseline study report on Cocoa producers‘ livelihood perceptions in five pilot areas in Ghana, C ôte d’Ivoire and Nigeria	CCE Frank Kuklinski, Oghenerobo Adhuze	Income, Productivity
n/a	Lebensqualität - Otto Group Trendstudie	Otto Group	Ethical Consumption
n/a	Marking Progress against child labor	International Labor Organisation	Child Labour
n/a	The COSA Measuring Sustainability Report Coffee and Cocoa in 12 Countries	Committee on Sustainability Assessment	General Conditions

2012


Date	Title & Link	Publisher	Topic
December	From Ghana to Magnum Ice Cream: Tracking Down the Organisation of Sustainable Cocoa Product Chains	Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg	Child Labour, Environment, Income
October	Cocoa Certification Study on the costs, advantages and disadvantages of cocoa certification	KMPG, ICCO	Certification
October	Towards Côte d’Ivoire Sustainable Cocoa Initiative (CISCI)	FAFO	General Conditions, Market development
August	Summary of Results: Fairtrade Impact Study	Centrum für Evaluation	Womans role, Farmers Organisation
June	Sustainable Management of Nestlé’s Cocoa Supply Chain in the Ivory Coast — Focus on Labor Standards	Fair Labor Association	Child Labour
June	Rainforest Alliance Certification on Cocoa Farms in Côte d’Ivoire	Rainforest Alliance	Certification
June	Fact – Sheet: Die Wertschöpfungskette von Schokolade	Südwind	Value Chain
May	Vom Kakaobaum bis zum Konsumenten – Die Wertschöpfungskette von Schokolade	Südwind	Value Chain, Market development, Cocoa price
April	Cocoa barometer 2012	Voice, BD, FNV, Oxfam, Südwind, Hivos, Solidaridad	General Conditions, Market development
April	The Gloomy Outlook for Cocoa Production in The Ivory Coast and Strategies for Sustainable Solutions for Recovery and Improvements of Productivity	ECOTOP	Training, Productivity
n/a	Cocoa Value Chain - Implication for the Smallholder Farmer in Ghana	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology	General Conditions, Market development
n/a	Certified Cocoa : Scaling up farmer participation in West Africa	IIED	Certification
n/a	Partnerships of a feather flock together? An analysis of the emergence of networks of partnerships in the global cocoa sector	Global networks, Wageningen University	Farmer Organisations, General Conditions
n/a	Fairer Handel am Beispiel Kakao	Fairtrade	Certification
n/a	Cocoa Fact Sheet	Wageningen UR Center for Development Innovation	Market development
n/a	Successional Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Cocoa Production within the Conservation Districts of Malinau and Kapuas Hulu	GIZ, FORCLIME	General Conditions
n/a	2012 Findings of the worst forms of child labor	US Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs	Child Labour
n/a	Incentives for sustainable cocoa production in Ghana	Royal Tropical Institute	Market development
n/a	Ein Standard für die Standards - Nachhaltigkeitsstandards für Agrarrohstoffe	WWF	Certification