Report Cocoa Actual Incomes English LICOP Publication
Briefing note: functioning of the futures market
This note forms a companion to the case study focused on the Living Income Differential (LID). A key lesson of the policy was the need to better understand how the futures market influences cocoa prices.
Report Coffee Actual Incomes English LICOP Publication
Components for creating living income policy initiatives: Coffee sector policy environment
Vietnam is the world’s 2nd largest coffee exporter, with smallholders earning relatively high incomes. This case describes how it came about, and yields valuable lessons for living income practitioners in other contexts.
LICOP Publication Report Cocoa Actual Incomes English
Components for creating living income policy initiatives: The case of the Living Income Differential (LID)
This case study describes the process of the Living Income Differential development from a planned price floor, which was changed into a premium on the export price and which initiated public-private discussions about an Economic Pact.
Author:
Joost Backer, Anna Laven, Christopher Wunderlich, Friedel Hütz-Adams
Components for creating living income policy initiatives: Insights from 3 policy case studies
Jointly commissioned by Evidensia, The Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP), and ISEAL, this report examines three in-depth case studies to examine how prominent living income policy initiatives have evolved.
Aligned Inclusive Living Income Narrative and Indicators
This guidance is intended to support stakeholders make impact at origin while minimizing companies’ legal risk of buying from small farmers in new EU legislation.
Author:
Living Income Community of Practice Technical Advisory Committee
Emerging Insights on Integrating Living Income into Landscape Initiatives
This paper includes in-depth case studies of four current landscape initiatives, providing insights into how landscape initiatives are explicitly engaging with living income concepts and objectives.
Technical Guidance on Due Diligence for Living Income
The Technical Guidance on Due Diligence for Living Income provides a practical and comprehensive framework that supports agribusiness companies in implementing HRDD for living income in line with the UNGPs.
Living Income Update Report Rural Cocoa-Growing Areas Ghana, 2025
This report provides updated estimates of the living income for rural Ghana. The update for June 2025 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, 2025
This report provides updated estimates of the living income for rural Côte D’Ivoire. The update for June 2025 takes into account inflation since the original living income report from August 2018 (CIRES, 2018).
A collaboration between COSA and DIASCA/GIZ, this document lays out standardised approaches to Farmer Actual Income and Living Income metrics and methodologies to advance Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) on key economic sustainability themes.
Author:
Jessica Mullan (COSA) with contribution from the DIASCA Income Working Group
