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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 20 November 2019

What is the true cost of Fast Fashion?

Given that Zara does not publish any data on supplier wages or the purchase prices it pays, we produced our own detailed calculation of the breakdown of the price of the hoody “RESPECT” which was sold in its stores during (…)

Tool Published on 10 October 2019

PARCEL, a free and didactic tool to assess the effects of sourcing food locally and sustainably

To support citizens and local authorities answer these questions and address the current issues related to food and agriculture in their territories, BASIC, Terre de Liens (French member of Access to Land) and FNAB (the French (…)

Publications Published on 10 October 2019

The Human Costs of Indian Tea

A new study conducted by BASIC for Oxfam Germany reveals that brands and supermarkets are taking an ever-increasing share of the price paid by shoppers. In the United States, supermarkets and tea brands capture almost 94 percent of (…)

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 (…)