Country: Côte d’Ivoire & Togo
Funded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and implemented by ETG | Beyond Beans in partnership with KIT Institute and Oxfam Novib, the 4-year EnRoute project was designed to find practical, cost-effective ways to support farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Togo towards a Living Income.
To date, increased pricing mechanisms are uncommon in agricultural trade. Although a farmer premium is paid as part of most cocoa certification programs, this amounts to less than 5% of the standard farmgate price and does not come near closing the living income gap.
Higher pricing mechanisms have significant potential to form part of a holistic solution. Rather than a sole focus on providing traditional agricultural services to help farmers intensify the production of their cash crops, a combination with new approaches surrounding pricing and the provision of higher payments to farmers for their produce may be a more effective alternative.
To find out more about EnRoute, you can read the project brochure here.
You can read the key findings from the project here.
The full Endline report from KIT Institute can be found here.
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