Sustainability

As part of its efforts to help address poverty among Ghanaian cocoa farmers, their households and the communities they live in, the Cocoa Abrabopa Association (CAA) in partnership with Ritter Sport GmbH & Co KG, Fuchs & Hoffmann and…
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Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCO), a licensed cocoa buying company (LBC), and partners, Valrhona SA and Walter Matter, have constructed a JHS classroom block for Pieso in the Prestea-Huni Valley municipality of the Western Region.…
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Bossman Owusu has been appointed as Solidaridad’s country representative for Ghana. From January 2023, Bossman will be responsible for providing strategic and programmatic leadership and oversight of Solidaridad’s operations in Ghana.…
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About 9,000 members of the Bia West Cocoa Farmers Union, with the assistance of Mondelez International, have pooled resources from their cocoa trade over the past 5 years to construct a soap processing factory valued at $1.5 million. The…
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Fairtrade International has updated its Cocoa Standard with a reinforced focus on human rights, the fight against deforestation, traceability, and living income. Confirming the development, the social justice organisation explained the…
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Findings of the 2022 Cocoa Barometer report show that pursuing human rights and environmental protection to address cocoa sustainability without paying higher prices will fail. Chocolate manufacturers and industry have over the years…
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Made in Ghana cocoa fruit beverage brand - Koa - has received key international recognition for its socially responsible business just five years after the establishment of its innovative cocoa fruit venture. The Swiss-Ghanaian…
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Cocoa farmers in Ghana have called on the government to mandate financial institutions to finance agriculture as part of their credit portfolio. This they believe will enable them to access funds needed to increase output. This call…
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The Chief Executive Officer of SEND Ghana, Siapha Kamara, has stated that pricing cocoa is a human rights issue. Mr. Kamara was speaking at a two-day conference on Living Income and Human Rights in Ghana’s Cocoa Sector organized by SEND…
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Chocolate giant, Mondelez International, is set to inject an additional $600 million into its cocoa sustainability programme, Cocoa Life, as it marks 10 years of the intervention. "We are proud to announce the next phase of our Cocoa Life…
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