Ivory Coast

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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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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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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Long-term sustainability for the cocoa sector is a major challenge. But rather than relying solely on price premiums, the solution is to think bigger, and admit the industry itself needs serious reform on the ground, argue Peter Stanbury…
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Lindt & Spruengli AG warned that the premium imposed by the world’s largest cocoa growers in West Africa will give chocolate manufacturers little choice but to raise their prices. Ivory Coast and Ghana are charging $400 per metric ton…
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Management of the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) has said the company has acquired the necessary certification to enable it to enter other markets in the sub-region. Instructively, CPC has noted that the recent access and receipt of a…
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The Managing Director of Ghana's Cocoa Marketing Company, Vincent Okyere Akomeah has disclosed Ghana and Ivory Coast will from October 1 this year begin paying the Living Income Differential (LID) to cocoa farmers. The LID an amount of…
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This week marked the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery — a powerful reminder that slavery is not a thing of the past. The International Labour Organization estimated that some 40 million people were victims of modern slavery…
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The willingness of some multinational firms to pay a cost-of-living bonus for African cocoa planters is welcome but will not save many farmers from grinding poverty, industry sources say. Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together account for…
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