Valentin Guye

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Catholic University of Louvain

Global demand shifts and supply chain interventions have the potential to reduce palm oil's environmental footprint, especially in otherwise unregulated plantations. This ultimately depends on deforestation reacting to prices in upstream, complex plantation-mill systems. We produce the first microeconomic panel of geolocalized palm oil mills, and w...

Across the tropics, cocoa is one of the main drivers of deforestation. In Ghana, the world’s second largest cocoa producer, the role of each of the main economic sectors in driving deforestation remains, however, contested—with cocoa, mining, logging, and plantations each blaming the others. Previous work has also suggested that food crops are disp...

This document describes the data and methods that Trase has used to map the cocoa supply chain in Côte d'Ivoire. The data is freely available to explore and download at https://doi.org/10.48650/E5CN-FH18

The present document details how the database Ivorian Cocoa Cooperatives and their Buyers (IC2B) is produced. The data records the cocoa cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire and their attributes, including geographic coordinates, departments, names of the companies disclosing to buy from them in a given year, and supplying farmer base sizes. This database...

The restoration of tropical forests has become a popular nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, protection of biodiversity and improving the livelihoods of local populations. The Bonn Challenge and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration underscore the international momentum of the restoration movement, with many countries committing t...