Other Publications

Following the first good steps of due diligence efforts, as voted by the EU Parliament, Tony's Open Chain urges the British Parliament and the American Congress to adopt their own regulatory frameworks to hold companies accountable for human rights and environmental violations in their supply chains.

a Cocoa Barometer Consultation paper

The Cocoa Barometer is a biennial publication, with the aim of creating an up-to-date, fair, and clear overview of the state of sustainability of the cocoa sector. The Barometer looks at the sector as a whole, but also couples aggregated and disaggregated company and country data with clear visualizations and fair contextualization of challenges, commitments, and accomplishments. It is published by a consortium of civil society actors from across the globe, and hosted by the VOICE network.

Fairtrade Living Income Reference Prices (LIRP) for cocoa from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire were first established in 2018, and revised in 2019, following the publication of living income benchmarks by the Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP).

Fairtrade has been testing this approach with frontrunner companies who committed to voluntarily paying the LIRP to their supply chain partners. Through pilot projects, the assumptions underlying the LIRP calculation are closely monitored. Based on the findings, a review of the Fairtrade Living Income Reference Prices is planned to take place next year.