Resources for Cocoa Professionals

GENERAL RESOURCES

• Glossary of Terms - 7th Edition

• Cocoa Barometer 2025 (VOICE)

• Cocoa Sustainability Research Database

• Cocoa Barometer Latin American Baseline September 2022 (VOICE) (English)

• Cocoa Barometer Latin American Baseline September 2022 (VOICE) (Spanish)

• Cocoa Barometer 2022 (VOICE)

TRACEABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY

• Chain of custody models and definitions

• Choosing the right chain of custody model for supply chain impact

• Transparency and Accountability - Towards building trust in the cocoa sector’s sustainability efforts (VOICE, 2022)

• Traceability, transparency and sustainability in the coca sector in Cameroon (Nititdae, 2022)

LIVING INCOME

• Cocoa Income Inventory

• Good Governance for Living Income in Cocoa

• Cocoa household income study; English, French, Spanish

• Towards a Living Income for Cocoa Farmers in Ghana: Assessing companies’ efforts

• to date (Oxfam, 2023)

• Discussion paper: Cocoa farmers in poverty trap (SÜDWIND, 2022)

• A Living Income for Cocoa Producers in Côte D'Ivoire and Ghana? (2021)

• IDH Roadmap on Living Income (IDH, 2024)

• Balancing the living income challenge: Towards a multi-actor approach to achieving a living income for cocoa farmers (Waarts, Y., Kiewisch, M., 2021)

• Necessary Farm Gate Prices for a Living Income (VOICE, 2020)

• Cocoa Living Income Compendium - A Cocoa Barometer Consultation Paper, (VOICE, 2022); English, French

Purchasing Practices

• Good Purchasing Practices (VOICE, 2025)

• Procurement Practices Principles - A DISCO Position Paper

Living Income Reference Prices

• Handbook on due diligence for enabling living incomes and living wages

• Living Income Reference Prices (Living Income Community of Practice)

• Living Income Benchmark Ghana

• Living Income Benchmark Côte d’Ivoire

• Living Income Reference Price for the cocoa sector in Sierra Leone

• Fairtrade Living Income Reference Price  and VOICE statement

• Tony’s Chocolonely Living Income Reference Price

• Living Income Reference Values

CHILD LABOR, FORCED LABOR & HUMAN TRAFFICKING

• Business Handbook on Due Diligence in the Cocoa Sector (OECD, 2023)

• ICI’s Member Reporting Exercise 2024; English, French

• Ending child labor and promoting sustainable cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana (European Commission, 2021)

• Cash transfers, resilience and child labour in Ghana (ICI, 2022)

• Final Report: Assessing Progress in Reducing Child Labor in Cocoa Production in Cocoa Growing Areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana (NORC, 2020)

• Training for spraying service providers on protecting children from pesticides

• The Potential of Landscape Approaches for Addressing Child Labour in the Cocoa Sector

GENDER, HEALTH & EQUALITY

• Behind Bars: Invisible Farmers and Workers in the Cocoa Supply Chain

• Gender analysis within the cocoa supply chain in Ghana

• Gender and cocoa

• The Importance of Gender Equality for Living Incomes in Smallholder Farming Communities

DEFORESTATION

• Detecting cocoa plantations in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and their implications on protected areas (2021)

• Sweet Nothings - How the Chocolate Industry has Failed to Honor Promises to End Deforestation for Cocoa in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana (Mighty Earth, 2022)

• Mighty Earth’s Cocoa Accountability Map

• State and Trends of Deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire (2019-2020)

EUDR

• Responsible Sourcing (WWF)

• Explainer Video - Unpacking EU Deforestation Regulation for the Cocoa Sector (European Forest Institute, 2024): English, French, Spanish

• EUDR Cocoa Fact Sheet - English ; French (European Forest Institute, 2023)

• EFI Cocoa Insight EUDR Due Diligence - English

• EUDR – Step-by-Step Guide for Business

AGROFORESTRY, BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE

• OFAC brief - Defining and promoting agroforestry cocoa for Cameroon and Central Africa (2024)

• Cocoa Agroforestry Library

• Agroforestry in the cocoa sector - A need for ambitious collaborative landscape

• approaches (Tropenbos International, 2020)

• Why farmers, not industry, must decide the future of cocoa (Mawutor, S., 2022)

• Analysis and design of the shade canopy of cocoa-based agroforestry systems (Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa, 2018)

• Rehabilitation and renovation of cocoa agroforestry systems -(Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2021)

• Thriving ecosystems, thriving cocoa

AGRICHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

• Pesticide Use in Cocoa, Practical Manual, 4th Ed (ECA, 2023)

• Knowledge, perception, and pesticide application practices among smallholder cocoa farmers in four Ghanaian cocoa-growing regions (2023)

• e-library on pesticides in cocoa, including studies, reports, manuals and background information on the topic

• The WHO recommended classification of pesticides by hazard and guidelines to classification (IPSC, 2004)

• International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management (FAO, 2016)

• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

• United Nations Environment Program - the Rotterdam, Stockholm and Basel Conventions