Articles Tagged with ''cocoa''

Koa inaugurated its second cocoa fruit factory in Ghana, together with 600 guests, the Ministry of Trade & Industry, and the Embassy of Switzerland.

Humans can pollinate cocoa crops by hand, similar to bees—all to ensure cocoa remains sustainable and consumers have enough chocolate for years to come.

Beginning on July 1, the new three-year phase of the project will have more ambitious goals and a wider group of partners.

The $8.2M (USD) project aims to support 6,500 smallholders in Indonesia to sustainably boost cocoa yields.

The report's findings provide actionable steps that underpin Barry Callebaut’s vision for a transformative approach to improve the existing cocoa farming model in Côte d'Ivoire, and more broadly, West Africa.

To date, the program has helped approximately a quarter of a million cocoa farmers and community members.

PRONATEC AG, a Swiss supplier of organic food raw materials and of sustainable, 100% organic chocolate, has commissioned one of Europe’s most advanced cocoa processing plants in Beringen in the canton of Schaffhausen in spring 2022.

Led by a four-person, multidisciplinary committee, the investigation was funded through a California Proposition 65 settlement reached between As You Sow and 32 members of the confectionery industry in 2018.

Built on SwissDeCode's DNAFoil proprietary technology, and incorporating underlying research from Mars Wrigley, the new solution enables field personnel to quickly test cocoa trees.