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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 (...)

Publications Published on 24 March 2021

Towards a fair transition of food systems: Issues and political levers for France

Based on the decarbonization pathway of the agricultural sector defined by the French government in its National Low-Carbon Strategy, IDDRI and Basic have developed two scenarios of food system transition, both aiming at the same (...)

Publications Published on 9 February 2021

French public aid to agriculture projects in the Global South: the schizophrenia of the government

The database developed by BASIC on the agricultural projects funded by the French State in countries eligible to Official Development Assistance enables to query on 1,500 keywords and variants. It has required the consolidation and (...)

Publications Published on 30 June 2020

The distribution of value in European chocolate chains

On 30 June 2020, a joint webinar was organized by the European Commission Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the (...)

Publications Published on 22 June 2020

CAC 40: unsustainable profits?

Oxfam France and BASIC have investigated the distribution of the value created by the companies listed in the French CAC 40 since the last financial crisis (2009-2018). The report describing the results of the research can be viewed (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)