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Yuca Waarts
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June 2008 - March 2016
LEI Wageningen UR
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This document outlines a collaborative and sector-wide approach to evaluating the living income status of households in the cocoa sector, addressing challenges in data collection and sharing that have been hindering progress. The Cocoa Household Income Study (CHIS) methodology is introduced to harmonise and provide a comprehensive framework for ass...
To support the implementation of the Mount Kenya Sustainable Landscape and Livelihoods Programme, Wageningen University & Research and ETC Consultants conducted a Situation Analysis (SA) and set the baseline for an Impact Evaluation (IE). The SA is based on detailed literature review, focus group discussions and key informant interviews in three co...
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 income concept establishes the net annual income required
for a household in a place to afford a decent standard of living. Based on datasets on smallholder cocoa and tea farme...
It is often claimed that cocoa producers are poor, but the extent of their poverty is rarely defined. We analyzed six data sets derived from household questionnaires of 385–88,896 cocoa producers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. Across all data sets, many households (30–58%) earn a gross income below the World Bank extreme poverty line and the majority...
A clear majority of smallholder farmers in commodity value chains such as cocoa, tea, coffee and oil palm are struggling to earn a living income. This despite numerous interventions in the past two decades, aiming to lift them out of poverty. Interventions have ranged from training, to voluntary sustainability certification and the provision of fre...
To tackle the multiple challenges facing the cocoa sector, voluntary sustainability standards and corporate initiatives, largely focusing on farm and farmer group scale, are often implemented by public-private-civil society partnerships of stakeholders further in the value chain. This paper looks at the social, economic, and environmental effects o...
Sustainability issues are urgent in cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire. The cocoa sector continues to face deeply embedded, interrelated challenges around productivity; low income and working conditions; scaling up grouping and service delivery to farmers; negative environmental impacts; and a tight supply and demand relationship with recession and...
As solutions to the multiple, long-running challenges facing cocoa growers and cocoa production, sustainability initiatives, including associations platforms and networks, voluntary sustainability standards, corporate and non-governmental and civil society initiatives have been developed. Largely implemented by cocoa farmers and groups, these initi...
Dit rapport gaat over welke belemmeringen in de wet- en regelgeving zorgen voor voedselverspilling.
In this factsheet, data sources are presented that can be used to find information
about factors that may influence the implementation and outcomes of activities by
UTZ Certified and partners. In
Food waste has multiple causes. One is vested in durability dating, more specifically the labelling of the date of minimum durability (‘best before’-date), or alternatively the expiration date (‘use-by’-date). The occurrence of food waste has the characteristic of ‘wickedness’, as its prevention may jeopardise the attainment of conflicting aims (li...
Since 2008, Cargill BV and Solidaridad have collaborated in a programme in Côte d’Ivoire that aims to
improve sustainability in the cocoa supply chain. To achieve that goal, support activities have been
provided to cooperatives and their farmer members. This joint effort started as a small-scale initiative
focusing on two cooperatives. By the end o...
Côte d’Ivoire has been the world’s largest cocoa exporter since the 1980s. The cocoa sector faces
a number of challenges such as low productivity and smallholder farmer incomes, poor working
conditions, complex labour issues and environmental challenges such as deforestation and climate
change.
The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) aims to acceler...
Since 2008 UTZ Certified has implemented a programme in Ivory Coast to enhance sustainability in the cocoa supply chain through the implementation of the UTZ Code of Conduct. The programme has supported farmers who are members of the cooperatives receive training on farm management and organisational capacity building, and become certified. Startin...
Certification of agricultural products is an increasingly common tool that is expected to contribute to agricultural improvement, farmer well-being, poverty alleviation, reduced environmental impact and food safety. In an increasingly competitive market, processors, manufacturers and retailers use certification to demonstrate their green and sustai...
In 2008, various value chain partners in Ivory Coast adopted the UTZ Code of Conduct and became UTZ certified to enhance sustainability in the cocoa supply chain. As part of the certification programme, cooperatives and are receiving training on farm management organisational capacity building. This brochure paints a picture of the situation on far...
The past decade has seen a sharp rise in initiatives to make supply chains more
sustainable, most of which focus on certifying individual farmers or producer
groups based on sustainability standards. Considering the substantial investments
in and expectations of sustainability certification, still little is known about
how these initiatives impact...
Wageningen UR and partners are conducting a BOCI funded commodity programme entitled ‘Enhancing sustainability of Dutch cocoa and coffee imports: Synergy between practice, policy, strategy and knowledge’. One of the components of this study was a quick scan of literature on the noteworthy and actual implementation methods of certification and their...
Onderzoek van Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research over de relatie tussen houdbaarheidsdata van producten en de verspilling van voedsel.
Dit rapport gaat over welke belemmeringen in de wet- en regelgeving zorgen voor voedselverspilling.
Understanding the problems and potentials of the organic waste stream is perhaps the single most important step that city authorities in Africa could take in moving towards sustainable, affordable, effective and efficient waste management. This publication presents four examples of recent attempts to manage organic waste sustainably in the African...
Nederlandse burgers, boeren, restaurants en supermarkten gooien samen dertig tot veertig procent van het voedsel weg. Dat moet anders, vindt minister Gerda Verburg van LNV. Door minder weg te gooien komen onder meer klimaatdoelstellingen dichterbij
In this chapter we present an analysis of whether the MEA-Scope ex-ante impact assessment Tool fulfils the need of the potential end-users with regard to the representativeness of indicator results for non-commodity outputs (NCOs) in relation to end-user demand.
The end-user demand for NCO indicators is explained, and compared with the NCO indicato...
In de Oekraïne bestaan veel handelsmogelijkheden, vooral in de energie en bio-energie sector. De Oekraïne heeft het grootste potentieel voor biomassa productie in Europa. Hier is nog nauwelijks gebruik van gemaakt en de arbeidskosten zijn laag. Dit biedt vele kansen voor investeringen in de lokale productie van bio-energie en de export van bio-ener...
Voorwaarden om handel in biologische producten tussen Nederland (NL) en de Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) te vergroten zijn geanalyseerd door het uitvoeren van een SWOT analyse, gebaseerd op informatie uit interviews en literatuurstudie. Er is grote potentie om handel in biologische producten tussen ZAR en NL te vergroten hoewel het voltooien van...
Het doel van deze verkenning is om op basis van literatuur en interviews met belangrijkste stakeholders een visie te formuleren over de wijze waarop het groene onderwijs een bijdrage kan leveren aan het verminderen van voedselverliezen binnen alle schakels van de keten inclusief de consument, en aan de nuttige toepassing van reststromen.
In dit rapport wordt aangegeven wat de belangrijke aanknopingspunten vormen voor vermindering van voedselverspilling, welke aandachtspunten prioriteit hebben voor de korte en lange termijn, en met welke partijen samengewerkt kan worden om de reductiedoelstelling te behalen.
The Fynbos biome in the Cape region in South Africa is currently the only production location of Rooibos tea in the world. In addition, biodiversity in the Fynbos biome is very large and unique for the world. This makes Rooibos tea a unique product, the availability of which strongly depends on the dynamics in a bounded territory. Rooibos is someti...
Since the 1960s, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has had a considerable influence on the types of products produced and on the methods of production. The CAP has been reformed several times. Currently it takes into account the agri-environment and rural development, as well as market and income support. In 2004 the MEA-Sc...