Author: William Saab
Post type: Webinar

The cocoa sector will not be able to know whether its efforts are sufficient until we understand the size of the problems and measure and improve our approaches. There is a positive trend in research being used more consistently, and in some cases being made publicly available. Much of the available information has been collected by NGOs and development organizations, while also many major companies collect comprehensive sets of data. But how can we combine data and insights to measure progress? And in what ways can we make sure data is used in an effective way? In this 90 minutes webinar, we sort the hype from the hope on data in cocoa.

Author: William Saab
Post type: Article

Written by: William Saab (Senior Consultant), supported by Eva Schouten (Analyst).  Also posted on LinkedIn. Reflecting on the 4th World Cocoa Conference in Berlin The global cocoa sector agrees that there is a need for a more sustainable sector and that the sector faces critical and complex […]

Author: William Saab
Post type: Article

Written by: William Saab (Senior Consultant), supported by Jennifer Morton (Analyst).  Also posted on LinkedIn. Thinking Differently: Farmer Entrepreneurship in the Cocoa Sector The need for a more sustainable sector where farmers and their communities can prosper and thrive is a broadly shared […]

Author: Insight into service delivery to chili pepper farmers in India
Post type: Article

Last month consultant Sharon Hesp visited India under assignment for IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative, for which NewForesight is currently conducting a study on services delivered to farmers. This study is part of the larger assignment for IDH on Service Delivery Models (SDM), which […]

Author: William Saab
Post type: News Update

November 13th, 2015 IDH has identified that competition between supply chain actors often prevents best practices from being broadly shared, particularly in the delivery of inputs and other support services to upstream actors such as smallholder farmers. The lack of insight into the […]