Farmers

On the occasion of its silver jubilee, global chocolate manufacturing giant Barry Callebaut has affirmed the commitment to make sustainable chocolate the norm by 2025, and reiterated its resolve to protect cocoa products and chocolate for…
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The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is planning to electronically pay all its farmers to stimulate the digital economy and also ensure the security of funds, a Deputy Chief Executive Officer at COCOBOD, Dr. Emmanuel Opoku has said. The move…
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Ivory Coast and Ghana are escalating action against cocoa buyers refusing to pay a $400-per-tonne Living Income Differential (LID) with a threat to name and shame top chocolate brands undermining the scheme. The two leading cocoa…
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In line with activities marking this year’s World Food Safety Day, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, Barry Callebaut Ghana has taken the message of food safety to some key cocoa-growing…
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So, on the 6th of July 2020 and on the 29th of March 2021, I published an article titled “Is Fairtrade Fair to Cocoa Farmers?” in The Cocoa Post, Ghana Talks Business and Business and Financial Times. Fairtrade Africa did the dutiful,…
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Hundreds of tonnes of cocoa beans are stuck in a shed at Aboaso in the Juaboso District of the Western North Region because they have not been purchased. Obviously livid local cocoa farmers have threatened to give up their farmlands to…
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Lack of data is the key setback in Cocoa production and marketing in Uganda. Emmanuel Lubega, the Uganda-South Sudan national coordinator at the East African Business Council-EABC, argues that even when hundreds of farmers are involved…
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World's number one cocoa beans producer - Ivory Coast - has reduced its farmgate price for the commodity by 9 percent, according to International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO)'s Cocoa Market Report for March 2021. This price reduction means…
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Transroyal Ghana Limited, Tachibana and Guittard with technical support from the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) have funded the construction of Ghana's first cocoa fermentation centre and handed over to the Offinso Fine Flavour…
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Managing Campaigner for EcoCare Ghana, Mr. Obed Owusu-Addai, and his organization have thrown their support behind the ongoing “Securing Equitable Living Income for Cocoa Farmers campaign” that is seeking to eliminate extreme poverty among…
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