"It’s empowering to see buyers agree to producer-led solutions."

"Last week Ghana and Ivory Coast finalized adding a “Living Income Differential” to every single metric ton of cocoa sold from these two countries - which together account for almost 70 % of world cocoa supply."

"Improving quality cannot be the sole answer/advice to the vast majority of cocoa farmers seeking a sustainable price in a volatile commodity market influenced by global supply, global demand, speculation, exchange rates and more."

"Pay More For Coffee represents one of the solutions at play. It applies both individually and structurally."

"So this is where I’d like us to locate this conversation: in the middle of the ocean. So to speak lol."

"When I was first starting I would Google 'specialty coffee anthropology pdf' and hope I would find something."

"I think if we understand the structure we have the possibility of changing the structure to stabilize the market."

"There are a couple points of view that I have - first is that transparency is always good because it holds everyone accountable and being disruptive is in essence a good thing.

The other is that this information might seem private to a grower - and as long as we know internally that we are supporting good healthy supply chains then that is enough."