Farmer organizations will be guaranteed a higher price for cocoa sales on Fairtrade terms, as part of foundation’s strategy towards enabling living incomes it said. Changes will come into effect October 2019.
When a group of children asked global chocolate firms to help finance their plant-a-tree campaign, not a single company stepped forward. This spurred the children on to create their own brand, The Change Chocolate, which is now Germany’s biggest-selling...
The Travelling Frenchman is scaling up production and distribution of its single-origin chocolate with two launches in time for Christmas from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Venezuela.
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has just introduced stronger safeguards to ensure certified palm oil is not causing deforestation or human rights abuses, but is it too little too late?
Confectionery giant Mondelēz International has been urged to sever its links with the “biggest and dirtiest palm oil trader in the world” in a protest staged outside its UK headquarters on Monday (19 November).
As part of a field trip for delegates at the World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting in Sao Paulo in October, the WCF organized a visit to CEPLAC so industry experts could see for themselves the work being carried out to not only help and promote Brazil's...
The 15th annual general assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) closed today, with over 850 representatives of the global palm oil and food industry agreeing to new certification standards for sustainable palm oil.
When Agrícola Condurú took over an abandoned cocoa plantation six years ago, the growers slowly brought it back to life, using the unique cabruca system to preserve the forest.
Company’s strategy focuses on four key areas: nourishing children, elevating youth, prospering communities and preserving ecosystems in West Africa, where 70% of world’s cocoa is grown.
Independent cocoa expert Ray Major provides an oversight of how cocoa has continued to survive against all the odds by adopting the cabruca method to manage the most valuable of crops.
From Ibizkus Wines selling a limited edition almond wine, to an art auction at Sotheby’s, artist Sophie Stinglhamber is on a mission to save the dying almond trees of Ibiza.
Chocolate maker Alter Eco has named Mike Forbes as its new CEO, as co-founders Edouard Rollet and Mathieu Senard are shifting their focus to establishing the Alter Eco Foundation, a nonprofit for social and environmental change set to launch in 2019.
Smallholder cocoa farmers in Ecuador can match the yields of CCN-51 with Nacional fine flavor, says the world's largest fine flavor cocoa plantation Hacienda Victoria.
Cathy Pieters says Mondelēz’s Cocoa Life Brazil and the WCF’s CocoaAction Brazil will work together by securing extra financing and government influence, while improving welfare of workers on the country’s farms.
Juana Botero, director sustainability at Casa Luker, on how the cocoa industry is taking the fight to the drugs gangs by building a successful human-centred business with social inclusion throughout the supply chain based on empathy and support for the...
US appeals court for the ninth circuit has allowed a child slavery-related lawsuit against Nestlé and Cargill to proceed, and the human rights advocate group that filed the suit warned more chocolate companies, including Mars, will be its next targets.
New program follows West African model and will galvanize the cocoa supply chain to work alongside federal and state governments, industry actors and others to address farm-level challenges and empower cocoa growers and their communities.
Announcement made at WCF conference in Sao Paulo. Cocoa Life will bring economic and social development for Brazilian cocoa farmers and their families while reforesting degraded land in the Amazon rainforest.
Ahead of the World Cocoa Federation conference in Sao Paulo we look at what Latin America has to offer in terms of cocoa production, quality, sustainability and diversity, and why it could become the 'epicentre of a cocoa revolution'.
Fairtrade International’s cocoa beans have seen the highest growth in sales during 2016-2017 compared to its other certified goods, including coffee, sugar and tea. However, most West African cocoa farmers still do not earn a living income.
Brothers Craig and Greg Sams will take to the stage next week to talk about how they entered the healthy-eating market with their Whole Earth Food Brand in the early 70s, before it became on-trend and how biochar is changing the future of organic farming.
Cocoa farmers’ voice in the chocolate industry is rising, says the World Cocoa Farmers Organization (WCFO), but a Declaration from farmers urges greater involvement in decision making on industry and government policy.
The pair, both with senior roles in their cocoa cooperatives, outline the main issues affecting women on plantations and explain how the Fairtrade Women’s School of Leadership has changed their lives.
Kallari Chocolate, an Ecuadorian cocoa farmer group that also produces branded chocolate, is to open a chocolate factory near its plantations in Tena next year.
As the WCF’s Partnership Meeting prepares to reconvene in Sao Paulo this month, Tim McCoy, VP for member & external relations, speaks exclusively to Confectionery News on CocoaAction Brazil – and why it’s good to be back in Latin America again.
European recycling technology and laws against single-use plastic have led to an increased awareness in Japan, particularly among the retail and food service industries, says JPI (Japan Packaging Institute).
Olam International has a “considerable” presence in Africa as the world’s leading originator of cocoa beans and a globally leading cocoa processor. Andrew Brooks, Olam Cocoa’s head of sustainability for Africa, speaks to us about how the group leverages...
Cargill says its licensed buying company (LBC) model has helped double sustainably sourced cocoa in Ghana during the 2017/2018 crop season to 10,000 MT, and it will extend the program to four more districts moving forward, including Debiso A, Debiso B,...
Premium chocolate brand TCHO has installed 10 flavor labs globally to let farmers taste chocolate made from their own cocoa beans so they can charge manufacturers a premium for their higher quality cocoa varietals.