New Ivory Coast Law Strips Legal Protection for Forests in Favour of Cocoa Plantations
The Ivory Coast’s dwindling rainforests could be “wiped out” under a new law that will see legal protections removed from thousands of square miles of classified forest and unprecedented power handed to industrial chocolate manufacturers.…
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UTZ Cocoa Certification Audits Reveal More Work to be Done in Eliminating Child Labour,…
The leading organization responsible for policing standards in the world’s cocoa industry has regularly approved cocoa from West African farms that use child labor or have contributed to deforestation of the region, interviews and…
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Buying Chocolate For Halloween? The Production Of Cocoa Is Scarier Than You Think
Scares are expected during the Halloween season, but your candy shouldn’t be one of the sources of them. Unfortunately, there are some pretty horrifying practices that go on in the making of some of the most popular mass market candies –…
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Solidaridad Offers 1-Year Affiliation for Ghana Cocoa Awards Best Journalist in Cocoa Reporting
International non-governmental development organisation, Solidaridad West Africa, is offering 1-year affiliation for the winner of Best Journalist in Cocoa Reporting Award at the upcoming Ghana Cocoa Awards 2019 (GCA).
"The winner would be…
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Ghana and Ivory Coast Withdraw Threat to Halt Sustainability Programmes
The world’s top cocoa producers backed down from a threat to suspend sustainability programs that they said confectioners and other buyers had prioritized over better pay for farmers.
Ivory Coast and Ghana, where more than 60% of the…
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When Cocoa “Child Labour” in Ghana is NOT child labour
Child labour concerns dominate issues regarding cocoa farming in Ghana. Do we have a situation of hyped deliberations, and are all allegations on the subject substantively for real?
This article delves into the matter. Perhaps in some…
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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia To Grace Ghana Cocoa Awards
Ghana's Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, is scheduled to grace the historic first edition of Ghana Cocoa Awards (GCA) as the Special Guest of Honour for the event, which comes off November 22, 2019 in Accra.
Dr. Bawumia is…
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Ghanaian Farmer’s Amazing Testimonial About Cocoa Hand Pollination
A young Cocoa Farmer at Bompieso in the Huni Valley Cocoa District, Alex Appiah, has narrated and testified in a video recorded on his farm, the impact of the cocoa hand pollination exercise carried out on his farm this year.
In the said…
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Nominations Open for Ghana Cocoa Awards 2019
Nominations for the historic first edition of Ghana Cocoa Awards (GCA) have opened from 20th September till 31st October, 2019.
The GCA is a cocoa industry excellence motivation initiative organised by VC Media with support from…
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Ghana And Ivory Coast To Determine the Future of Sustainability Programmes
The world's top two cocoa producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana have agreed on a common position on the future of sustainability and certification programmes in the cocoa sector.
Their joint decision arrived at during a 2-day Abidjan meeting…
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