摘要
There are many ways to move towards a living income through policy levers. One of these is by collaborating to identify price-mechanisms and policies to improve farmers’ living income. A prominent example of this is the Living Income Differential (LID) in West Africa.
The LID was the result of a joint initiative of the Ivorian and Ghanaian governments to address the sharp drop in world market cocoa prices, which reduced farmers’ incomes and governments’ revenues from cocoa. The LID is a $400 per tonne premium on cocoa exports, paid on top of the world market price. This case study describes the process of the LID’s development from a planned floor price, which was changed into a premium on the export price and which initiated public-private discussions about an Economic Pact. It heavily involved governments in producer countries, those in exporting countries, companies (both leaders and laggards) and civil society.
该案例为致力于以政策为导向的“体面生活收入”实践者提供了若干启示，包括有必要：
- 了解未来市场的运作机制，并向市场参与者施压，促使他们开发能够支持以维持生计收入为导向的措施的交易系统
- 不要仅关注补贴本身，而应将相关措施与其他支持性政策（如稳定基金和供应管理）相结合
- 从更广泛的视角审视针对特定行业的“体面生活收入”干预措施
- 让更多的（可可）生产国和其他利益相关方参与未来的举措
- 允许企业在部分市场开展业务——前提是必须保持完全透明
- 考虑消费国的法规，以及这些法规可能如何影响“对农民有利”的采购做法
In this session, we unpacked the LID case study in depth, before a panel of practitioners shared their own reflections and answered questions from participants. Watch the recording below.
Moderator:
- Stephanie Daniels, Senior Program Director, Sustainable Food Lab
演讲嘉宾：
- Joost Backer, Lead Project Researcher
- Friedel Hütz-Adams, Senior Researcher, SÜDWIND e.V. – Institut für Ökonomie und Ökumene
- Alex Assanvo Arnaud, Executive Secretary, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana Cocoa Initiative
- Solomon Boateng, Executive Secretary, Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Union
- Joseph Bandanaa, Regional Advisor – Africa, Swiss Sustainable Coffee Platform & Country Lead, Ghana, Swiss Platform for Sustainable Cocoa