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Can digital value chain tracing drive the sustainability transition? A closer look at Peruvian cocoa

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Title Can digital value chain tracing drive the sustainability transition? A closer look at Peruvian cocoa
 
Creator Steinke, Jonathan
Ivanova, Yovita Petrova
Jones, Sarah
Minh, Thai Thi
Sanchez Bogado, Andrea Cecilia
Sanchez Choy Sanchez, Jose Gerardo
Mockshell, Jonathan Yaw
Min
 
Subject sustainability
digital agriculture
blockchain technology
cocoa industry
traceability
value chains
smallholders-smallholder farmers
agroecology
 
Description Key messages:
- Growing consumer demand for agri-food commodities grown under responsible social and environmental conditions creates financial
incentives for the private sector transition towards sustainable sourcing.
- Verifying farming sustainability is challenging in smallholder context due to complex supply chains. But novel digital technologies allow
tracing commodities back to farms of origin, enabling increased transparency on farm-level practices.
- Implementing digital traceability systems requires commitments by various value chain players, so financial gains from higher market
demand must be shared equitably.
- Given limited external supervision, careful choice of sustainability metrics is important to ensure data accuracy and to limit opportunities for fraud.
- Setting up tracing systems may require investments in farmers’ digital capacity and co-design of user-friendly interfaces. Where increased consumer demand does not cover costs, public payments for ecosystem services can uphold incentives for farmers’ sustainability transition.
 
Date 2023-07
2023-08-08T10:08:55Z
2023-08-08T10:08:55Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Steinke, J.; Ivanova, Y.P.; Jones, S.; Minh, T.T.; Sanchez Bogado, A.C.; Sanchez Choy Sanchez, J.G.; Mockshell, J.Y. (2023) Can digital value chain tracing drive the sustainability transition? A closer look at Peruvian cocoa. 4 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131501
 
Language en
 
Relation Policy Brief
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 4 p.
application/pdf