Blog
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Fair and Smart Data (FSD) researcher Niklas Mensing attended the World Cocoa Conference in Brussels this year. In his blog, he shares personal learnings and thoughts from the conference proceedings and highlights some of the industry's core issues.
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With the increasing temperature records and escalating frequency and intensity of weather extremes, the urgency of climate mitigation cannot be overstated (IPCC, 2022). In my master's thesis, I researched the impact of chocolate companies implementing Scope-3 emissions reduction strategies on the...
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Agroforestry carbon farming projects have multiple benefits on a local and global scale. By looking at one project in Uganda, participating in the Acorn programme, this blog explored how additional income links to gender equality and women´s empowerment.
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‘Earth’s hottest month ever’ is a clear warning that we as humanity should not overshoot planetary boundaries. We must act now, and we should do it together.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has gradually become more prevalent in our daily lives. We ask Siri about the weather or have Chat GPT type our work emails. But what does it take to make all these AI-driven devices work?
Blog Archive
| Title | Link |
| Reflections from the World Cocoa Conference 2024 in Brussels: A Call for Change | Access |
| Navigating Climate Mitigation in Cocoa Supply Chains for Farmers' Empowerment | Access |
| Why Gender Equality and Women´s Empowerment are crucial for Successful Agroforestry Carbon Farming Projects | Access |
| Earth’s hottest month ever! What now? | Access |
| The Dark Side of AI | Access |
| Empowering Smallholder Farmers in the Data Economy: Unlocking Opportunities and Overcoming Obstacles | Access |
| “Feeling” Global Sustainability Issues: Use AR and VR to dive into World-wide Value Networks in Agriculture | Access |
| What are the green claims of companies based on? | Access |
| Sustainable Value Addition in the Global South – A Comparative Case Study of the Cocoa Value Chain in Ghana | Access |
| FSD's support for Solidaridad's Good Clothes Fair Pay Petition | Access |
| Building the Bridge Between Academia and the “Outside” World: The Creation of the Fair & Smart Data Spearhead | Access |
| Smallholders at the End of the Supply Chain: Fair Carbon Payments for Carbon Farmers in the Global South | Access |
| Fair Trade Premiums: How Much Reaches the Farmers? | Access |
| Building the "Missing Middle" in Africa's Farming System | Access |
| How digital tools can give farmers in Malawi their fair share | Access |
| FSDGs – a brief look at the relationship between two acronyms | Access |
| Bringing the Farmer to the Consumer: Why Do Consumers Not Buy Fair Trade Products? | Access |
| Transparency in the Carbon Market | Access |
| GroЯ® trading platform as an example of Fair and Smart Data | Access |
| Carbon Banking to Tackle the Climate Crisis | Access |