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Publications Published on 17 September 2019

Integrating environmental externalities in school food tendering

Representing a quarter of the carbon footprint of the French, food is a GHG emissions equivalent to transport or housing. It also generates significant impacts on the quality and consumption of water, the quality of soil and air, or (…)

Publications Published on 5 August 2019

Unfair Harvest: the State of Rice in Asia

New research commissioned by Oxfam and realized by Basic shows that rice farmers in some countries can receive as little as 4% of the price paid by consumers. This has implications for poverty: in Nepal, farmers’ income from rice (…)

Event Published on 3 January 2019

Following 5 years of advocacy, a new directive on Unfair Trading Practices is finally approved

Two years after entry into force, the new EU Directive will protect suppliers with an annual turnover up to EUR 350 million from unfair trading practices in food supply chains, covering both EU and non-EU suppliers, for example: late (…)

Event Published on 18 December 2018

The European Commission invited BASIC to present its latest study on the coffee sector in Brussels

Some 60 people working in European institutions, foreign embassies, business federations and civil society organizations participated in the “InfoPoint” conference on the coffee sector organized by DG DEVCO of the (…)

Event Published on 3 October 2018

BASIC opens the World Cocoa Day conference in Paris

On October 3rd, 2018, the French Chocolate Manufacturers’ Association brought together all the industry’s main actors to discuss and debate the major challenges affecting the sector: producer low income, fight against (…)

Publications Published on 1 October 2018

Coffee, behind the success story

Skyrocketing value creation… In France, coffee sales have doubled in value since 2003 thanks to new marketing strategies linked, in particular, to the emergence of premium Arabica coffees in preportioned sizes (pods and capsules), (…)

Publications Published on 23 June 2018

Ripe for change: Ending human suffering in supermarket supply chains

Over the last decades, agricultural supply chains have become more global, and tightly coordinated/driven by a small number of food companies and retailing chains that connect agricultural producers with an ever-growing population of (…)

Publications Published on 11 June 2018

Foul Play: Sponsors leave workers (still) on the sidelines

While millions of people are getting ready to cheer their favorite teams during the Football World Cup, our new report “Foul Play Sponsors leave workers (still) on the sidelines” demonstrate that the sponsorship battle between (…)

Publications Published on 14 May 2018

“CAC 40: profits without benefit”

Oxfam and the Bureau for the Appraisal of Social Impacts for Citizen information (BASIC) have analysed the activities of CAC 40 companies since 2009; one of the most striking findings of this research is the unequal sharing of (…)

Publications Published on 27 November 2017

The societal impacts of South African wine & grapes value chains

The German food market, the largest in Europe, is heavily influenced and structured by supermarket chains, and more particularly discounters. They have created price sensitive consumers and low margin markets which have further (…)