The Importance of Gender Equality for Living Incomes in Smallholder Farming Communities
This briefing paper explores the links between living income and gender equality and how companies can fully integrate a gender perspective in their living income programmes.
Author:
Sally Smith (Anker Research Institute) and Anny Stoikova (The Living Income Community of Practice)
This report consolidates and analyzes information from 1,283 coffee farms, collected by the technical teams of the signatories of the Coffee, Forest, and Climate Agreement.
Living Income Benchmark for the Eastern Province and Living Income Reference Price for the cocoa sector in Sierra Leone (2024)
This study computes two important indicators: the Living Income Benchmark (LIB) for the cocoa-growing areas located in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone and the Living Income Reference Price (LIRP) for the cocoa sector.
Author:
KIT Institute (Oumou Diallo, Rik Habraken & Esther Smits)
The Living Income Community of Practice’s (LICOP) virtual workshop brought together participants around a central question "‘How can the living income lens add value to existing efforts and drive more holistic impact for smallholder communities?"
How do you measure household income when working towards a living income? How do you approach calculating the living income gap? What to do if data is missing or absent?
How do you calculate the living income gap? How do you visualize the living income gap? What should you consider when reporting the living income data?
During Chocoa-Amsterdam Cocoa Week, Fairfood, IDH, and the Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP) joined forces to to host 'A Living Income Afternoon'.
Author:
Fairfood, IDH, and the Living Income Community of Practice
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Fairtrade Living Income Reference Prices for Cocoa from Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire
Fairtrade’s Living Income Reference Prices were first established for cocoa from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire in 2018, following a large-scale household income study conducted in Côte d’Ivoire. The new Living Income Reference Prices presented in this document
Living Income Update Report Rural Cocoa-Growing Areas Ghana, 2024
This report provides updated estimates of the living income for rural Ghana. The update for June 2024 takes into account inflation since the living income study of March 2018 (Smith & Sarpong, 2018).
Living Income Update Report Rural Cocoa-Growing Areas Côte d’Ivoire, 2024
This report provides updated estimates of the living income for rural Côte D’Ivoire. The update for June 2024 takes into account inflation since the June 2022 living income update report (Anker & Anker, 2022).
