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Millions of small coffee growers vs. central monitoring from 7000 km away: a classic #commons governance story?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/09/coffee-how-rules-made-in-europe-put-ethiopian-farmers-at-riskWhy does the EU importer not take responsibility?
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R1115#rct_30If not, can they do the paperwork through a #cooperative? #Fairtrade seems to think so.
https://www.gcrmag.com/fairtrade-to-expand-deforestation-monitoring-through-partnership-with-satelligence/One coop seems to exist.
https://www.oromiacoffeeunion.org/about-us/The cut-off date may be trickier.
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Over-95-of-Ghana-s-cocoa-safe-from-EU-ban-EU-INTPA-1742576#Ethiopia #ClimateChange #EUpolicy #Deforestation #JustTransition
(53) Traders should be responsible for collecting and keeping information to ensure the transparency of the supply chain of relevant products which they make available on the market. Non-SME traders have a significant influence on supply chains and play an important role in ensuring that supply chains are deforestation-free. They should therefore have the same obligations as operators, take responsibility for the compliance of the relevant products with this Regulation and ensure, prior to making the relevant products available on the market, that they have exercised due diligence in accordance with this Regulation and have concluded that there is no or only a negligible risk that the relevant products do not comply with this Regulation.
Fairtrade and Satelligence have launched a new partnership to ramp up satellite monitoring of forested areas and farms to all certified coffee and cocoa and producer organisations globally. The initiative aims to connect Fairtrade cooperatives with data on their members’ farms and their deforestation risks, so the cooperatives can share the data with commercial partners and better manage forest landscapes. “This partnership focuses on an increasingly important area of trade: access to risk management data, which defines what cocoa and coffee can enter the European Union market,” says Jon Walker, Senior Advisor for Cocoa at Fairtrade International. “Whoever has the data has the key to market access. Many large buyers have their own monitoring systems that cover the cooperatives they buy from, but they don’t necessarily share what they see with the cooperatives themselves. “Inequalities in trading relationships will only widen if producer organisations are reliant on their trade partners for access to these important data. This partnership enables producer organisations and their smallholder members to have access to the data and act on risks identified.”
But Regis Meritan strongly assuaged the fears of cocoa farmers, in both Ghana and Ivory Coast, of any adverse impact of the EUDR on their livelihoods. "I do not think that the regulation on deforestation will have a major impact on your ability to continue to sell your cocoa and your cocoa to be imported into Europe," Dr Meritan assured. "I am not talking about 100 per cent of your production, but I think we are talking about 98 per cent of your production or 95 [per cent] I will be probably right," he stated. The European Union DG for International Partnerships rather insisted that "the main problem that could happen is more probably linked to your own legislation than this new criterion applied by the EU after 2020." According to him although the majority of cocoa farms in Ghana predate the EUDR cut-off date of December 2020, the designation of such farmlands by Ghanaian law as protected areas could be problematic.
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