CocoaAsempa – How a Software Became a Life-Saver For Purchasing Cocoa in Ghana
A digital platform - CocoaAsempa Software - has emerged to transform the Cocoa purchasing and monitoring process in Ghana.
The platform has created a cashless mode for cash movement for Licensed Buying Companies (LBCs). Also, a means to…
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Hershey Extends Its Cocoa For Good Sustainability Scheme
An effort that increases commitment to purchasing 100% certified and sustainable cocoa
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Buhler Training Facility Opens In Ivory Coast To Aid Increased Processing Of Cocoa In Africa
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…
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Buhler Eulogises Herbert Max Fraenkel The ‘Father Of Optical Sorting’
Herbert personified Sortex and he’d been prominent from its beginning until he retired
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New Fairtrade Certification To Boost Incomes For Cocoa And Coffee Farmers
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…
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Cocoa and Forests Initiative Plants Four Million Trees In Afforestation Drive
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…
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Protecting Forests As An Economic Proposition For Cocoa Farmers
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…
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Rainforest Alliance 2019 Report Details Progress In Sustainability And Environmental Schemes
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…
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Olam Cocoa Donates Food And Medical Supplies To Help Farmers In Africa Fight Covid-19
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.…
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Mars Inc Files Patent For Heat Resistant Chocolate
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…
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