The ISEAL-funded research project Integrating new data to improve risk assessments and detection of forced labour in agricultural supply chains (2017 – 18) is an attempt to build the evidence base around monitoring and remediating forced labour in agricultural supply chains in order to improve assessment and detection efforts. This document is an internal interim submission and contains:

1. A questionnaire and interview protocol for interviews that will be held with UTZ and Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) field experts located in the research’s three countries of focus (Guatemala, India, Kenya). The primary purpose of these interviews is to understand how forced labour occurs in these locations and how information on its occurrence can be practically obtained (i.e. which methods or indicators), which will support the development of the methodology.
2. A literature review which has provided a contextual basis for interview questions and selected areas of focus for the interviews. This exercise also provides background knowledge on country forced labour risk factors in the three pilot countries and identifies current leading models for detecting and remediating forced labour.