This policy note argues that the low income of cocoa farmers in the cocoa-chocolate global value chain (GVC) is not only a problem in itself, but also exacerbates social and environmental sustainability issues such as child labor and deforestation. The experience of the last two decades has...

This policy note argues that the low income of cocoa farmers in the cocoa-chocolate global value chain (GVC) is not only a problem in itself, but also exacerbates social and environmental sustainability issues such as child labor and deforestation. The experience of the last two decades has...

Der vorliegende Report diskutiert die gegenwärtige Struktur der globalen Kakao Wertschöpfungskette (KS-WSK). Er zeigt auf, dass sich die arbeitsintensive Produktion von Kakaobohnen stark auf Côte d'Ivoire und Ghana konzentriert, während die kapitalintensive Verarbeitung der Bohnen sowie die...

Based on a longstanding colonial history of unequal exchange between the Global North and South, cocoa-based products and in particular chocolate nowadays belong to the staples of household consumption in many countries of the Global North, including in the European Union (EU). But only since...