Sustainability

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,…
Read More...

Barry Callebaut 'Farm Of The Future' Advances Cocoa Farming Innovation
Read More...

"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.…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

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…
Read More...

Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) is set to commence a process to hand over 51,000 hectares of successfully rehabilitated cocoa farms to owners. The cocoa farms are part of some 136,000 hectares of moribund and Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus…
Read More...

Cocoa production in key regions in Ghana, especially the Western North Region, has declined to a historic low in recent years. With about 70 percent of farms in the region estimated to be affected, cocoa production volumes have been…
Read More...

A preliminary report has cited the lack of information about the Living Income Differential (LID) as a source of potential threat to its implementation. "Little information on the policy is giving rise to potentially different and…
Read More...