Summary
Jointly commissioned by Evidensia, The Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP), and ISEAL Alliance, this report examines three in-depth case studies to examine how prominent living income policy initiatives have evolved, what motivated key actors to support or resist them, and what practitioners can draw from these experiences to apply in their own work. It also proposes an analytical framework that researchers can use to construct comparable cases.
There is more than one way to work towards a living income and each case study has been carefully chosen to represent a different ‘type’ of living income strategy that sectors and governments can play a key role in. The case studies are:
- The Living Income Differential in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
- The integration of living income into the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
- Vietnam’s decades-long national coffee sector strategy and why its smallholders now earn relatively high incomes
The report also features two additional deep dives on the Coffee Public-Private Task Force hosted by the International Coffee Organization; and on-the-ground efforts by Rikolto to advance living income in West and East Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.