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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Mondelez International Supports 450 Cocoa Communities in COVID-19 Fight
About 174,000 cocoa farmers in 450 cocoa-growing communities in Ghana have received Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) worth GH¢ 454,000.
The items, procured by the Mondelez International in partnership with Child Rights International…
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COCOBOD Boss Decries Destruction of Cocoa Farms By Illegal Miners
The Chief Executive of COCOBOD, Joseph Boahen Aidoo, is appealing to the security agencies to intensify the fight against illegal (galamsey) miners whose activities are destroying acres of cocoa farms.
The Cocobod boss said, “ they come…
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Nyonkopa, Barry Callebaut Ghana Donate Items Worth US$25K to Curb COVID-19 in Cocoa Communities
Cocoa farming communities across the country are expected to take delivery of assorted items worth US$25,000 to curb the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The donation is under the auspices of Nyonkopa Cocoa Buying…
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Cocoa, Chocolate Industry Donates $835,000 To Help Farmers Fight COVID19
Global cocoa and chocolate companies are donating $835,000 to help cocoa farmers and their families fight the spreading coronavirus by supporting the national emergency plans of governments in West Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Coming…
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Cocoa, Chocolate Industry Donates to Ghana Farmers to Fight COVID-19
Global Cocoa and chocolate companies are donating $325,000 to help cocoa farmers and their families in Ghana fight the spreading coronavirus by supporting the national emergency plan of the government.
Coming on top of numerous individual…
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