Oiconomy Pricing - Real price of cocoa liquor from single origin beans, Sierra Leone

Abstract

Tradin Organic is a Dutch B2B company, which sources, distributes, and processes organic food ingredients to the international food market. Within its wide product portfolio, the case is single origin, organic cocoa liquor, from cocoa beans which are cultivated by smallholder farmers, located in Sierra Leone. The cocoa beans are bought in from the smallholder farmers and processed in a factory owned by Tradin Organic and stationed in The Netherlands. Tradin Organic has several impact programs aimed at to improving the environmental and social sustainability of the cocoa supplychain but has not yet quantified the externalities associated with the product.