Seas of Change Initiative

Fact sheets

This page publishes the fact sheets that focus on main trends, strengths and challenges of the following commodities: cocoa, coffee, cotton, dairy, fishery, and horticulture, highlighting efforts made so far to set up inclusive business models and to scale them up.

The fact sheets are guided by the following questions: 
  1. Main highlights of cocoa production, trade and consumption: Which are the potentials and challenges of the sector?
  2. How is inclusiveness tackled? Which approaches and models are demonstrating (elements of) success? What are key incentives in the approaches that drive that success?
  3. What is the scale of impact that is being achieved, how does that compare with what is needed, where could it go?
  4. What are the roles and responsibilities of business, government, civil society and knowledge institutions in the scaling efforts?
  5. What are the constraints and opportunities to further up-scaling?