Swiss food processing technology giant, Bühler Group, has opened an ultra-modern Agroindustrial Training & Innovation Center in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Christened the Buhler Cocoa Competence Center (CFIA), the facility becomes the first… Read More...
In a move to deepen benefits for farmers, Fairtrade International has announced a new requirement for cooperatives and traders applying for cocoa or coffee certification.
The requirement, which takes effect 1 June 2020, obligates… Read More...
A key international public-private venture, the Cocoa & Forests Initiative (CFI), has reported major progress towards ending deforestation in Ghana and Ivory Coast, with four million trees planted and a million farmers receiving… Read More...
Deforestation is a recognised problem in the cocoa industry. Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s two biggest cocoa producers, have experienced some of the fastest rates of deforestation anywhere in the world and this is also a growing… Read More...
The global Rainforest Alliance group has released its latest annual report, detailing projects with over two million certified farmers in over 70 countries on key social and environmental challenges including farmer livelihoods, child… Read More...
Olam Cocoa has announced a package of support to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and important medical supplies to its cocoa farming communities tackling COVID-19 across central and West Africa.… Read More...
Chocolate manufacturing giant, Mars Incorporated, has put in a patent application for a new heat resistant chocolates.
The company's scientists came up with the innovation in response to the challenge of chocolate products melting in… Read More...
About 174,000 cocoa farmers in 450 cocoa-growing communities in Ghana have received Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) worth GH¢ 454,000.
The items, procured by the Mondelez International in partnership with Child Rights International… Read More...