{"schemaVersion":"2.0","canonicalUrl":"https://s1.salientone.eu/sourcing-risk/ivory-coast/agriculture/cocoa","country":{"isoA3":"CIV","name":"Ivory Coast","slug":"ivory-coast"},"sector":{"code":"agriculture","label":"Agriculture & Food"},"commodity":"cocoa","subject":"cocoa","subjectSlug":"cocoa","countryContextBand":"high","sectorContextBand":"moderate","directEvidenceBand":"high","sectorEvidenceBand":"severe","decisionRouting":"Enhanced evidence is indicated before supplier onboarding, award or renewal.","summary":"[S/1] records 4 source-linked signals relevant to cocoa in Ivory Coast's agriculture & food sector. The most elevated subject-specific evidence is rated high. Country context is high and sector-adjusted context is moderate. Enhanced evidence is indicated before supplier onboarding, award or renewal.","evidenceAvailable":true,"signals":[{"riskType":"deforestation","riskLevel":"severe","subject":null,"value":3.69,"valueUnit":"%/yr","source":"World Bank — Forest area indicator","sourceUrl":"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS","sourceRecordUrl":"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS","referenceId":null,"sourceYear":2023,"sourceEffectiveDate":"2023-12-31","retrievedAt":"2026-08-22T15:19:46.515Z","derivedBy":"Salient One","methodVersion":"forest-area-trend-1.0","assessmentBasis":"S1 relative annual trend derived from World Bank AG.LND.FRST.ZS forest area as a percentage of land area; it is not a Global Forest Watch tree-cover-loss measure.","enforcementStatus":null,"scope":"sector"},{"riskType":"child_labour","riskLevel":"high","subject":"Cocoa","value":null,"valueUnit":null,"source":"US DOL TVPRA","sourceUrl":"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods","sourceRecordUrl":"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ilab/child_labor_reports/tda2023/2024ListofGoodsExcel.xlsx","referenceId":"Cocoa","sourceYear":2024,"sourceEffectiveDate":"2024-09-05","retrievedAt":"2026-08-22T16:23:55.003Z","derivedBy":"Salient One","methodVersion":"tvpra-sector-map-1.0","assessmentBasis":"US DOL-listed good mapped to the S1 Agriculture & Food sector. The high band routes enhanced verification and is not a finding about a specific supplier or shipment.","enforcementStatus":"listed","scope":"subject"},{"riskType":"forced_labour","riskLevel":"high","subject":"Cocoa","value":null,"valueUnit":null,"source":"US DOL TVPRA","sourceUrl":"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods","sourceRecordUrl":"https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ilab/child_labor_reports/tda2023/2024ListofGoodsExcel.xlsx","referenceId":"Cocoa","sourceYear":2024,"sourceEffectiveDate":"2024-09-05","retrievedAt":"2026-08-22T16:23:55.003Z","derivedBy":"Salient One","methodVersion":"tvpra-sector-map-1.0","assessmentBasis":"US DOL-listed good mapped to the S1 Agriculture & Food sector. The high band routes enhanced verification and is not a finding about a specific supplier or shipment.","enforcementStatus":"listed","scope":"subject"},{"riskType":"eudr_commodity","riskLevel":null,"subject":"cocoa","value":null,"valueUnit":null,"source":"Salient One derived EUDR scope flag","sourceUrl":"https://s1.salientone.eu/methodology#sourcing-risk-evidence","sourceRecordUrl":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32023R1115","referenceId":null,"sourceYear":2026,"sourceEffectiveDate":"2026-08-22","retrievedAt":"2026-08-22T15:19:46.515Z","derivedBy":"Salient One","methodVersion":"eudr-scope-screen-1.0","assessmentBasis":"S1 screening scope flag for cocoa; the cited regulation defines the relevant commodity scope, while the country–commodity pairing is an internal evidence-review flag. It is not the EU country benchmark or an externally published severity rating.","enforcementStatus":null,"scope":"subject"}],"sources":[{"name":"World Bank — Forest area indicator","url":"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS"},{"name":"US DOL TVPRA","url":"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods"},{"name":"Salient One derived EUDR scope flag","url":"https://s1.salientone.eu/methodology#sourcing-risk-evidence"}],"priorityDomains":[{"domain":"environmental","label":"Environmental","band":"severe","explanation":"Sector profile significantly intensified environmental harm risk (×2.5), elevating the effective risk rating from high to severe."},{"domain":"governance","label":"Governance","band":"high","explanation":"Regulatory enforcement risk is intensified by sector-specific governance deficits (×1.2)."},{"domain":"forced_labour","label":"Forced Labour","band":"high","explanation":"Sector intensified forced labour exposure (×1.6) — jurisdictional forced labour indices include: Cocoa, Coffee, elevating the effective risk rating from moderate to high."},{"domain":"corruption","label":"Corruption","band":"moderate","explanation":"Intensified corruption exposure driven by sector-specific opaque procurement (×1.3)."}],"evidenceActions":[{"label":"Reconstruct ownership and actual control, including material historical changes and opaque jurisdictions.","source":"stage"},{"label":"Verify licences, banking route, tax or distress signals and the operating facts material to the engagement.","source":"stage"},{"label":"Preserve the approval rationale, evidence dates, limitations, owner and next review trigger.","source":"stage"},{"label":"Execute verification of correspondent banking stability and document de-risking impacts on settlement latency.","source":"engine"},{"label":"Formally document Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), including UBO verification and source-of-wealth analysis.","source":"engine"},{"label":"Initiate Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD)","source":"engine"},{"label":"Execute Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) verification","source":"engine"},{"label":"Perform forensic Forced Labour supply chain assessment","source":"engine"},{"label":"Run comprehensive Sanctions and Export Control screening","source":"engine"}],"questions":[{"question":"What should a buyer verify before sourcing cocoa from Ivory Coast?","answer":"Enhanced evidence is indicated before supplier onboarding, award or renewal. Establish the supplier's legal identity and current status, reconstruct ownership and control, screen connected parties, verify operating capacity and preserve the evidence dates, limitations and review trigger."},{"question":"What evidence does [S/1] record for cocoa from Ivory Coast?","answer":"The agriculture & food sector has deforestation evidence for Ivory Coast, rated severe. The recorded value is 3.69%/yr (2023). The interpretation is derived by Salient One under method forest-area-trend-1.0. cocoa is directly matched to child-labour evidence for Ivory Coast, rated high. The source vintage is 2024. Reference: Cocoa. Source status: listed. The interpretation is derived by Salient One under method tvpra-sector-map-1.0. cocoa is directly matched to forced-labour evidence for Ivory Coast, rated high. The source vintage is 2024. Reference: Cocoa. Source status: listed. The interpretation is derived by Salient One under method tvpra-sector-map-1.0. cocoa is directly matched to EUDR evidence-review scope flag for Ivory Coast, with no published risk level. The source vintage is 2026. The interpretation is derived by Salient One under method eudr-scope-screen-1.0."},{"question":"Where does the cocoa sourcing evidence come from?","answer":"The matching observations come from World Bank — Forest area indicator, US DOL TVPRA, Salient One derived EUDR scope flag. Each evidence row shows its source vintage or observation date and links to the source where available."},{"question":"Does this brief clear a Ivory Coast supplier?","answer":"No. This is a country-, sector- and commodity-level routing aid. It does not establish the identity, ownership, sanctions status, operating capacity, legality or suitability of any supplier or transaction."}],"limitations":["This brief is a country-, sector- and commodity-level evidence-routing aid, not a supplier verdict.","A source match is not a finding about a specific entity, shipment or transaction.","No matching observation is not evidence of absence; source coverage and publication cycles differ.","Verify current primary records and apply the governing law and your organisation's controls before a material decision."],"datePublished":"2026-08-22","dateModified":"2026-08-24"}