Sustainability

Fairtrade Africa (FTA) has asserted at the 28th ARSO General Assembly in Yaoundé, Cameroon, that sustainability in supply chains has come to stay. FTA programme team leader of cocoa in Ghana, Abubakar Afful, has there launched a spirited…
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The European Union, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and other cocoa sector stakeholders have agreed to step up work on making cocoa more sustainable. At a high-level event of the EU's sustainable cocoa initiative dubbed “Cocoa Talks”, the parties…
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A global cocoa and ingredients trading giant, ECOM, has published a fresh set of commitments and time-bound targets to drive forward its mission to grow a smarter future for cocoa. The Smarter Cocoa Charter is ECOM’s first-ever…
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Cocoa Life Ghana, Mondelez International's sustainability program, has presented one thousand six hundred and thirty-six (1,636) bicycles to its community animators in all its 818 partner societies. Each of the cocoa communities,…
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Barry Callebaut 'Farm Of The Future' Advances Cocoa Farming Innovation
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"I have travelled far away from home to be at this important gathering. A few years ago, it would have been impossible for me, a woman, to attend this cocoa farming-related programme," Charity Ofori, a female cocoa farmer, told Cocoa Post.…
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The German Initiative on Sustainable Cocoa (GISCO) has held its 10th Annual General Meeting in Berlin on the topic 'Human Rights Due Diligence in the Cocoa Sector: Working Together for Better Living Conditions for Cocoa Farmers.' The…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana risk impoverishment if urgent steps are not taken by the government to halt threats posed by illegal mining activities that are gradually destroying cocoa farms. According to a new Cocobod study, about 11,000…
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Mars Incorporated has announced a new effort to improve the livelihoods of 14,000 smallholder cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire and Indonesia by the next eight years. According to the chocolate maker of more than 100 years, two…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana will for the first time have the opportunity to join their counterparts in Cote d'Ivoire and Cameroon in a new competition to promote cocoa agroforestry. The winner gets to undertake a trip to Cameroon to study…
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