“Tackling challenges together” is the guiding principle of our Roadmap 2030. To be successful with this approach, we need to know where our members stand, what drives them and where their priorities lie. This Baseline Report serves as a basis for assessing the commitment of members of the Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa (SWISSCO) to achieving the goals of the Roadmap 2030 across the four target areas (living income, deforestation, child labour and traceability) and two key transversal themes (gender and innovation). 85 % of SWISSCO members answered the survey for this Baseline Report. The report is therefore important to effectively implement our common strategy and increase transparency on our common actions in the future.
Thanks to the Baseline Survey we now know:
- Our members reach 1’461’250 cocoa farming households with their sustainability engagements. 39 % of these were solely financed activities/measures, thus avoiding double-counting.
- 81 % of all SWISSCO member companies from sectors A & B indicated using the payment of premiums to reward cocoa farmers and their families for their performance in terms of sustainability and quality. The report also showed that most members apply more than one type of reward scheme.
- 72 % of the responding members want to learn more about the impact of their activities on the household income of farming families.
- Climate-smart, regenerative and agroforestry practices are currently gaining increasing attention. Over 500’000 farmers were supported with Climate Smart Agriculture and Agroforestry measures in 2021. However, in order to reliably report on having enabled farmers to effectively adopt those measures (70’000 by 2025 and 150’000 by 2030), we need to investigate more about how to make qualitative claims.