auteurs Cacao Barometer 2017 beluister(d)en onze mening over hoe de boerenprijs te verhogen

Afgelopen woensdag publiceerde het Voice Network – bekend van de gezaghebbende Cacaobarometers – een ‘Consultation Paper’ over de vraag hoe we farmgate prijzen voor cacao kunnen verhogen.

“Daarbinnen is ‘supply management’ zeer belangrijk (en maak ik dankbaar gebruik van een stuk van Niek Koning die jullie me beiden toestuurden 😉,”
mailde Managing Director Antonie Fountain ons (i.e. Janneke en mij).
Fijn! Draagt ons beider duet toch weer iets ten goede bij.

Antonie is benieuwd naar ons aller feedback. Download de PDF en laat je mening hieronder alvast achter. De deadline om te reageren is 30 juni 2017 en kan ook rechtstreeks bij antonie@voicenetwork.eu. Dit alles moet in de herfst van dit jaar resulteren in een Cacaobarometer, editie 2017.

dat eerdere duet

Toenmalig Fairtrade CEO Harriet Lamb op ConfectioneryNews (d.d. 21-Oct-2015):

Chocolate makers must pay double the market price for cocoa farmers to receive a living income.

Waarop Barry Parkin, wereldwijd hoofd inkoop van MARS (d.d. 27-Jun-2016):

We can double or more the yield, we can double the income – which is a good start – but it’s not yet sustainable.

To get to sustainable we’ve got to triple or quadruple the income. That’s the harsh reality… to get to a living income, a level where farmers are thriving, where the next generation want to be farmers, it’s a big big step.

brengt VOICE inspiratie voor Barry Parkin?

Zit er voldoende inspiratie voor Chief Sustainability Officer Parkin in deze paper? (Fairtrade ben ik in deze kwijt, sorry hoor)

Ik moet ‘m zelf nog met volle aandacht lezen, maar in het oog springend zijn alvast

1. het principe van de (Flexible) Premiums:

   • Some smaller companies, such as Taza Chocolate, Ingemann, and Tony’s Chocolonely, already work with flexible premiums based on farm gate price developments.

     • zelf ben ik hier op het eerste oog niet erg van gecharmeerd, tenzij inderdaad door kleinere bedrijven toegepast.

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2. maar vooral toch ook Government Responsibility:

   • If the only intervention would be price-based industry-led solutions, within several years, there is a risk of an oversupply of cocoa. As such, price intervention must be coupled with a more long-term policy approach from producing nations’ governments looking at a coherent agricultural policy, and at some levels of global supply management. One simply cannot intervene in price and then laissez faire on supply. As such, there is also a crucial role for cocoa producing nations’ governments to take their responsibility on this issue much more seriously.

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3. wat moet resulteren – hoera, Niek Koning! – in Supply Management:

   • Supply management has been a key element of the agricultural policy of most industrialised countries to protect their farmers. In fact, it has been one of the few ways by which Europe and the United States have been able to sustain their agricultural industries over the past decades.

   • Effective supply control would need to be achieved within the individual countries, as well as on a global level. At both national and global levels, this would require the establishment of workable mechanisms for (re)allocating individual production rights, monitoring quality and production methods, overcoming rent seeking, corruption and avoidance, workable mechanisms for monitoring national production and trade, (re)allocating production rights between countries, and overcoming free rider problems.

   • Clear lessons have to be learned from the international commodity agreements that functioned until the 1980’s; as these largely failed due to a combination of not properly addressing the issues mentioned above coupled with ideological motives to deregulate and liberalise the global commodities markets.

FLEXIBLE PREMIUM MODEL (EXAMPLE)