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Publications Published on 22 October 2024

A guide to analyze a territory’s food system

Ademe, the French Agency for Ecological Transition, has just published a guide produced by BASIC explaining how to carry out an analysis of a food system, its sustainability and resilience. The guide (which can be downloaded from (…)

Publications Published on 24 September 2024

The major difficulties facing the French beef industry

Total meat consumption in France has risen steadily since the 1970s, but the share of beef is declining. The beef industry is faced with an aging workforce, a vocational crisis, a significant decline in livestock numbers, and (…)

Publications Published on 17 September 2024

A study on “the unfair price of our food”

8 million French people find themselves in a situation of food insecurity. At least 2 million people are forced to rely on food aid to feed themselves. The number of diabetics has increased by 160% in 20 years. 18% of (…)

Publications Published on 18 June 2024

A German coffee market characterized by a disconnection in prices

Our latest study on value, costs and profits’ distribution in the coffee value chain, commissioned by Global Coffee Platform, IDH and Solidaridad Network, revealed on June 18, 2024, show a disconnection between farmer prices (…)

Publications Published on 28 April 2023

First study on the distribution of value and impact of living income implementation in mine-to-market value chains

Providing living wages and incomes to workers at mica mines and processors is a vital step on the path to lift workers, their families, and their communities out of poverty and exploitation and toward a life of self-sufficiency and (…)

Publications Published on 20 September 2022

Analysis of the cocoa and chocolate value chains in Germany

On 20 September 2022, BASIC published a study on the cocoa and chocolate value chains in Germany. The analysis was commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), the (…)

Publications Published on 30 November 2021

Pesticides: a model that’s costing us dearly

Pesticides are often in the news. We can read or hear about them in new research publications, political agendas, and numerous campaigns and press releases. Meanwhile, the future of European agriculture and sustainable food systems (…)

Publications Published on 5 November 2021

The financial model of DAX 30 companies in the light of the ecological and social transition

Our study analyzes how DAX 30 companies have used their profits in the past few years: between 2009 and 2020, payments to shareholders rose by 85%, almost twice as much as profits (after tax) which rose by 48%, while the proportion (…)

Publications Published on 3 November 2021

Unraveling the issues of digitalisation in agriculture and food value chains

Digital technologies have become an integral part of our daily lives, changing the way the economy and society as a whole work. To what extent is it also changing the agricultural and food sectors today? Our study highlights the (…)

Publications Published on 28 September 2021

Food sustainable labels and standards: a new analytical framework to make things clearer

An innovative methodology developed by BASIC has been applied to analyze the impacts of 11 sustainability labels in 15 product categories on the French food market. Based on a comprehensive literature review, the study investigates (…)