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Ivory Coast Rains Freeze Cocoa Sales
Ivory Coast has put a freeze on cocoa contracts for the 2023/24 crop season following weeks of torrential rains that have flooded farms, Reuters has reported.
With cocoa prices currently at record levels due to concerns over supplies, the…
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EuroChocolate Festival 2023 Set For 13 – 22 October
EuroChocolate 2023, an annual chocolate festival, is set to come off in the Italian city of Perugia from the 13th to the 22nd of October.
The festival deemed one of the largest chocolate festivals in Europe has captivated chocolate…
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Progress As Industry Partnership Aids Forest Restoration
Cote d'Ivoire's Cavally Forest is reported to have seen a significant facelift thanks to a 3-year multi-sectoral restoration partnership.
Preliminary results from the first phase of the Cavally forest restoration project point to an…
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RA Builds Capacity Of Auditors Ahead Of Certification Cycle
Rainforest Alliance (RA) is an international non-profit organization working at the intersection of business, agriculture, and forests to make responsible business the new normal.
The organisation is building an alliance to protect…
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Ghana Enrols 1.2 Million Smallholder Farms Onto Cocoa Traceability System
A deputy Chief Executive of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), Dr Emmanuel Opoku has disclosed that 1,239,169 individual cocoa farms covering a total area of 1,380,566 hectares have been captured onto the country's Cocoa Management System (CMS).…
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Rainforest Alliance Delivers School Supplies To Mark World Day Against Child Labour
Rainforest Alliance, an international NGO, has with support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) presented assorted school supplies to two community basic schools in Ghana in commemoration of the 2023 World Day…
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Rising Child Labour Incidence in US Prompts New Legislations
American lawmakers have introduced two new legislations to Congress aimed at helping tackle the enduring problem of child labour on US farms.
The intervention comes at a time the United States is grappling with a rise in the incidence of…
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EU Council Approves Deforestation Regulation For Enforcement
The Council of the European Union has given its final approval for its Deforestation Regulation aimed at reducing deforestation associated with key EU market imports.
The regulation is targeted at cocoa, palm oil, cattle, wood, coffee,…
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World Cocoa Foundation Appoints New Board Officers
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) has announced the appointment of three new officers to its board.
They are Christine McGrath, who replaces Peter Boone ex-CEO of Barry Callebaut as the new Chairman, Kojo Amoo-Gottfried and Tejinder Singh…
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Startup Launches ‘Koa Natural’ First Cocoa Fruit Juice In Ghana
A Swiss-Ghanaian startup, Koa, has introduced its first ready-to-drink cocoa fruit juice - Koa Natural - onto the Ghana and West African markets.
The product, called Koa Natural, is an all-natural juice produced from the white, fleshy…
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