This project started in 2019, is documenting key policy, and operational and practical changes occurring in the cocoa sector. The study also engages cocoa farmers to understand changes in their livelihoods over time, including changes in environmental conditions on production, income and production levels, membership of associations, labour conditions, the extent of benefits from cocoa productivity enhancement programs such as mass spraying, fertiliser subsidy, hand pollination, and participation in sustainability programmes being implemented by cocoa and chocolate companies. In 2022, the study begun to document debates and analysis of the Living Income concept. The empirical part of engaging cocoa farmers to understand income trends, cocoa pricing mechanisms and pathways for strengthening income from cocoa shall be undertaken in the latter part of 2023