Articles Tagged with ''cocoa farmers''

Lindt & Sprungli is investing heavily into Ghana with hopes of being able to verify its entire cocoa beans supply chain from the country by 2016.

“These results demonstrate how we have been able to improve cocoa yields and quality, as well as the livelihoods of the farmers and their communities,“ says Grow Cocoa’s program director, Kevin Wilkins.

Barry Callebaut hopes to train about 300 farmers in cocoa husbandry in the first year that its new Cocoa Center of Excellence in Côte d'Ivoire is open.

Hershey may have been the last major chocolate makers to join the list of companies planning to use 100% sustainable cocoa by 2020 — following Mars, Nestle, Mondelez and Ferrero — but that doesn’t mean they aren’t taking the goal seriously.

Mars believes that only way to truly change the cocoa world is to work with others — even if it means working with its competitors.

What the Good Food awards are designed to do is recognize sustainable food production and superior taste — parameters that have often been separated in past competitions.