Earlier this month, sustainability schemes employed by chocolate producers appeared to be at risk when countries stated that they would be reconsidered due to producers’ slow payment of the living income differential. The LID is a program that targets farmer poverty. Now, the countries have stated that the sustainability schemes appear to complement the LID, and will simply be monitored moving forward. The hope is that moving forward, farmer incomes can be improved and chocolate production can become more sustainable.
See "Ivory Coast, Ghana lift threat to cocoa sustainability schemes", Ange Aboa, Reuters, October 23, 2019