The research project Integrating new data to improve risk assessments and detection of forced labour in agricultural supply chains (2017 – 18) was 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 was an internal interim submission and contains:

1. A questionnaire and interview protocol for interviews 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 was to understand how forced labour occurred in these locations and how information on its occurrence can be practically obtained (i.e. which methods or indicators). Findings from these interviews supported the development of the methodology.
2. A literature review which provided a contextual basis for interview questions and selected areas of focus for the interviews. This exercise also provided background knowledge on country forced labour risk factors in the three pilot countries and identified current leading models for detecting and remediating forced labour.