Valentin Guye

Researcher

Valentin is an economist researcher who joined Trase in 2023 and works in the Supply Chain Mapping and Research teams. He is in charge with updating and developing the cocoa supply chain models, in Ivory Coast and Ghana. Before that, Valentin was a PhD student at MCC Berlin and PSAE paris, where he did research on Indonesian palm oil deforestation and on pan-tropical indirect land use change, using econometrics. Valentin holds degrees in economics from Université Paris-Saclay (BSc, 2015; MSc, 2017; PhD, 2022) and in geography from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (cotutelle PhD, 2022).

Insights by Valentin Guye

People carry bags of cocoa at a cocoa exporter's in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Analysis
10 Mar 2025

Putting smallholder farmers at the heart of EUDR implementation

Tony’s Chocolonely’s ‘open chain’ initiative offers a best-practice example of how companies could engage with their suppliers in a way that protects and supports the livelihoods of smallholder farmers while also ensuring compliance with the EU deforestation regulation (EUDR).

workers drying cocoa beans, Cote d'Ivoire

Analysis
20 Aug 2024

Smallholder cocoa farmers need support as EUDR compliance nears

Trase research shows huge variations in the traceability of cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire and the likelihood of whether supplies will comply with the EU deforestation regulation. Support for smallholder farmers is needed to avoid excluding them from the EU market, as companies prepare for regulation.

Explainer
8 May 2024

Côte d'Ivoire cocoa exports and deforestation

Trase maps the international trade in cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire revealing which trading companies and consumer markets are most exposed to deforestation.

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