Individual Household Economy Approach (IHEA) Pre-Intervention Baseline for Impact Evaluation of Rainforest Alliance Cocoa Certification Program in South Sulawesi 2013

The Rainforest Alliance is implementing a project along with partners Mars, Inc. and the Indonesia Ministry of Agriculture, with funding through the Biodiversity and Agricultural Commodities Program (BACP). The project will provide training in improved farming techniques and prepare farmers in the Bantaeng District for Rainforest Alliance certification. The purpose of this study is to establish a pre-intervention baseline for the BACP project that will allow the Rainforest Alliance to measure the impact of improved practices on household livelihoods. The baseline study also provides an opportunity to test the Individual Household Economy
Approach (IHEA) as a methodology for evaluating the contribution of certification business models to key social and economic impacts