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Brazil Cocoa and Coffee Sprint 2020

  • Contact: Vivian, Pernilla and Javier
  • Sprint Time: Until end of June
  • Project Task Board: https://github.com/sei-international/TRASE/projects/20

Schedule

Time WHAT Status
Mid May Meeting with IPAM and TNC Partially done
Mid May Research cooperatives and associations of producers underway
End of May First sei-pcs results for QA underway
End of May QA for Coffee and Cocoa to include a comparison with Agrostat data underway
Start of June Indicator production underway
Mid to end of June Consultation with experts -
Upload to the database July -

Strategy

Decision tree wiki

Observable HQ:

Observable Cocoa and Coffee

Indicators Scoping:

Indicator Source Description Type Status Commodity Who
Smallholder dominance Atlas Imaflora Same used in other countries Map Done Coffee and Cocoa
Participation of smallholder in supply chain Recolor by Cocoa V
Credit.. PRONAF Credit granted for cocoa production per municipality. Map Cocoa V
Certification RFA/Imaflora (Erasmus) UTZ (Cargill) - Coordinate with GCP -- -- Investigating Cocoa and Coffee P
Deforestation associated Map? -- Map, Resize by Investigating: Requires cocoa coverage map. Cocoa and Coffee V.P
Secondary deforestation Map? Occurring in secondary growth Map, Resize by Investigating: Requires cocoa coverage map. Coffee and Cocoa V.P
Production IBGE HA, TN, Yield Map Done Cocoa and Coffee P
Cooperatives Investigation and discussion with Lucimar Cocoa V
Slavery associated with production Radar SIT Distributed based on CNAE Map Cocoa and Coffee P
Gender equality associated with production Radar SIT Distributed based on CNAE Map Cocoa and Coffee P
Type of product CD data Cocoa and Coffee P
Quality of the coffee beans Coffee V
Climate Vulnerability index Ilyun Koh et al 2020 Environ. Res. Lett. Climate risk to Brazilian coffee production Study by Ilyun Koh in ERL (Accepted Manuscript) understanding the impact of climate change on coffee growing areas in Brazil and developing a vulnerability index focusing more on the socio-economic aspect of vulnerability. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aba471/pdf Unclear if we can get the data for this yet as it is still in press. Coffee P

Cocoa Life - Mondelez Program to increase transparency and sustainability in cocoa supply chain

CEPLAC and CEPEC Executive Committee for Cocoa Farming Plan and Cocoa Research Center

Cacao Forest Partnership to increase sustainability in the cocoa supply chain - It's executed by TNC, Olam, and Mondeliz are the biggest supporters. They are replacing degraded pastures in cocoa plantations in the Amazon, especially in Sao Felix do Xingu and Tucuma.

Cocoa Action Voluntary industry-wide strategy in order to align complementary roles and responsibilities, leverage scale and efficiency through collaboration, and catalyze efforts to accelerate sustainability in the cocoa sector.

Global Forest Watch Pro Potential source of farms for Mondelez and Cargill (according to Cargill they mapped 110.000 farms around the world)

Agrostat- Official Brazilian source for exported goods produced in Brazil.

Cooperatives

CAMPPAX Cooperative negotiating cocoa with Cargill

CAPRU Local cooperative for cocoa producers

CABRUCA Cooperative of organic cocoa producers in southern Bahia

CONEXUS NGO to promote sustainable business in BR

Contacts

Name Organization Action
Rodrigo Freire TNC Waiting for a reply email
Edenise Garcia TNC Waiting for a reply email
Lucimar Souza Ipam Meeting scheduled for May, 19
Andrea Azevedo Conexus

Meeting notes:

TNC - Edenise Garcia (June, 5)
AIPC - Anna Paula Losi and Guilherme Salata (June, 24) * AIPC is responsible for 97% of the processing of cocoa in Brazil;
* Coronavirus will impact the cocoa supply chain in Brazil significantly, they are already noticing a strong decrease in volume processed; * The amount of cocoa exported as almonds are very small, but for this specific product, it is possible to see a bigger volume going to exports without AIPC participation. This is happening because of some specific partnerships between countries and cooperatives (like cacau fino in Para, which a Japanese cooperative is exporting directly to Japan);
* Among the cocoa actors, it is well established that the participation of PA in the processing of cocoa has been smaller than BA, and even though PA now has a better perspective of increasing their harvest and processing, it is still smaller than BA. The discussions about PA been bigger than BA are motivated mainly by a confused and very questionable method to measure production in the state, which is slightly better now in Census 2017; * The assumption that 100% of the almonds that were produced in the country and subsequently exported been produced in Para is not bad. It's probably not 100%, but it is a lot and difficult to measure;
* AIPC data is limited to the state of origin, which means that they can't say from which municipality the cocoa was produced. When we asked about our method using the least-cost distance to fill the requirement of volume to export they alerted us about the atravessadores and the reality that maybe the production can be collected from more distant municipalities;
* Something really important is the participation of the imports from Ghana in the exports from Brazil. In theory, the total exports from AIPC are firstly made using the cocoa imported (because of the drawbacks), and then we can consider the internal production. This was an uncomfortable topic because, in theory, they are not mixing imports and internal production... in theory;
* The "recebidos" from AIPC represents a very good perspective of the contribution of the state to the exports, it's not significantly contaminated by atravessadores between states;
* They emphasized multiple times the importance of domestic consumption, and Guilherme, who knew the platform already, said that would be great for the sector to have the domestic market mapped in the platform;
* Guilherme is also part of the cocoa action, which is collecting a lot of different indicators associated to the supply chain in BR. He said that they will be happy to share the indicators in Trase;
* They agreed to receive our model output and provide comments, they also asked if they can show this in a meeting with the exporters (barry, cargill and olam) to collect more feedback;
* Anna will send the total recebidos per state for from 2015 to 2017 and also the volume imported that was processed and also the factor that we should use between almonds and processed products (the same they are using to declare the drawbacks)

Updates for wider SEI-PCS team:

May 14th 1. The challenge in BR cocoa is the connection between area of production and LH (very concentrated in Ilheus). Some cooperatives and association are key to identify the production in Pará 2. Cargill has more 110.000 cocoa farms mapped, they are using GFW Pro, but it's probably not disclosed 3. Rodrigo Freire is the manager of the most important program in Brazil using cocoa for reforestation in Pará, we sent him an email to talk about these associations and check if we can have the total volumes in these places 4. We started some conversations with Ipam about the possibility to write a policy brief about the increasing participation of smallholders in the international market in BR Amazon 5. We discussed the importance of indicators like credit, slavery associated to cocoa production and smallholder participation in the supply chain 6. Mid to end of June we want to send the results for specialist consultation (Rodrigo and Lucimar)
June 11th 1. We are now implementing in the code the strategy to improve the map of the commodity chain based on some constraints in the LP. 2. We had a meeting with TNC (Edenise Garcia), which leads the biggest project of implementation of agroforestry systems to recover degraded pastures in Amazon. We are waiting for some contributions especially about the Para state data that can improve our model, but also indicators generated during the project that can be interesting to add in Trase. 3. We are expecting to have the first package of indicators and a first subnational map until the end of June. 4. Going to go ahead with the upload for coffee before cocoa, to get some experience with that.
July and August 1. New potential indicator of climate risk vulnerability in the major coffee producing regions.