Tony's Open Chain Impact Report 2024/25

PILLAR 2: BUILDING HOUSEHOLD RESILIENCE

Our aspirational targets

Our 2030 commitments We support all cocoa-farming households in our supply chain to build resilience across infrastructure, climate, business, healthcare and finance 50 .

At least 60,000 households will access 3 of 5 interventions (infrastructure, climate, farming business case), with 20,000 receiving all 5 (incl. healthcare and financial management) following a needs-based approach.

MEASURES TO FOSTER RESILIENCE Interventions focus on financial management, healthcare, infrastructure & developing the farming business case.

Building resilience is essential to enable farmers to withstand climate, economic and household shocks. Climate resilience refers to the capacity to recover from or mitigate vulnerability to climate-related events, such as floods and droughts. 51 For smallholder cocoa farmers, this means being able to cope with weather-related disruptions that affect production, yield and crop quality. Social and economic resilience encompasses the ability of cocoa farmers and their households to manage economic and personal shocks, including national or global recessions, income instability due to fluctuating cocoa prices or yields, and unexpected expenses such as health-related costs. Over the next pages, we outline our plans to support cocoa-farming households in our supply chain to build resilience against economic and household shocks. Climate interventions are covered in detail as part of our updated productivity programme, presented in our Climate, environment and productivity chapter.

• Improving financial and digital literacy, as well as access to financing • Enhancing business skills

• On-farm crop diversification for food security • Enabling access to healthcare • Improving community infrastructure

• Developing climate resilient farms • Improving community infrastructure

50. The pace and reach of interventions across these areas depend on sustained investment from Mission Allies and other funders. 51. Baffour-Ata, Frank, et al. “Building the Resilience of Smallholder Farmers to Climate Variability: Using Climate-Smart Agriculture in Bono East Region, Ghana.” Heliyon, vol. 9, no. 11, 2023, article e21815.

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Ending exploitation in cocoa together

Living income

Climate, environment & productivity

Human rights

Governance & finances

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