Sustainability

Civil Society groups in West Africa call on EU to intervene to protect LID payments to cocoa farmers

By Anthony Myers

06-Nov-2023 Last updated on 06-Nov-2023 at 13:51 GMT

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A fair price for cocoa beans? The industry is again accused of trying to avoid paying a LID to farmers. Pic: CN

The African Platform for Sustainable Cocoa, which brings together civil society cocoa platforms from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, has issued a statement alleging the cocoa industry is refusing to pay at the current market price plus the Living Income Differential (LID) despite promising to do so.

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