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Cocoa certification in West Africa: The need for change

Uribe Leitz E., Ruf F.. 2019. In : Schmidt Michael (ed.), Giovannucci Daniele (ed.), Palekhov Dmitry (ed.), Hansmann Berthod (ed.). Sustainable global value chains. Cham : Springer, p. 435-461. (Natural Resource Management in Transition).

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14877-9_24

The goal of this chapter is to discuss various implementation challenges of current cocoa certification schemes at the farm level in West Africa. To this end, the chapter presents a selection of certification criteria (requirements) from the two leading certification schemes: UTZ Certified and Rainforest Alliance. The criteria selected exemplify typical implementation problems in the West African cocoa sector, though they are by no means an exhaustive list.

Mots-clés : certification; theobroma cacao; agroforesterie; système de certification; afrique occidentale

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