Ressources

Ce neuvième rapport de la banque mondiale sur la situation économique en Côte d’Ivoire analyse les dernières tendances de l’économie ivoirienne et porte sur la manière dont le secteur du cacao pourrait soutenir la transformation structurelle du pays et ainsi promouvoir davantage d’inclusion économique et sociale.

This report, by the Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL) assesses the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility efforts in the cocoa industry in Cote d'Ivoire. It argues for an increase in the price companies pay for cocoa as part of a wider push for sustainability.

This report describes examples of methods used by Terre des Hommes, their partners around the world and other relevant stakeholders to address child labour successfully.

Acumen partnered with Hershey to publish Cocoa Interrupted: The Role of Social Enterprise in Cocoa Sustainability. The report highlights the stories social enterprises in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire that use for-profit models to creatively and sustainably address the varied needs of cocoa-growing communities. It includes concrete recommendations for how to add social enterprise to a corporate sustainability toolkit.

Cocoa farmers face a huge number of challenges, but one lies at the root of many of them: most farmers’ incomes are simply too low. Estimates before the price of cocoa crashed between September 2016 and February 2017 suggested that the price cocoa farmers receive represents less than seven percent of the value of cocoa sold in Europe.