Articles Tagged with ''cocoa sustainability''

TCHO use hi-tech techniques to trace, track cocoa beans

Effort embraces on-site flavor labs, improved infrastructures and cloud-based monitoring systems to monitor bean quality.
March 20, 2013
San Francisco-based TCHO, a high-end chocolate bar manufacturer that takes to heart its core values involving quality and traceability, has been in the forefront of linking the supply chain from the farmer’s field to the consumer.
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Cocoa

Brave new chocolate

As most of the major chocolate players commit to sustainable chocolate within seven years, the 2020 goal poses a slew of challenges for suppliers.
Bernie Pacyniak
January 31, 2013
Unlike the doomsday date (Dec. 21, 2012) posed by the cyclic end of the Mayan calendar that some interpreted as the end of the world, the year 2020 has much more credibility as a valid deadline. In fact, it could very well represent the end of cocoa and chocolate as most consumers know it.
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Sustainability

Mondelez to invest $400 in cocoa farming communities

Company starts Cocoa Life, take holistic approach
Crystal Lindell
Crystal Lindell
November 20, 2012
The money will fund more than just farmers looking to improve their yields. It's slated to help eliminate child labor, promote gender equality, market cocoa farming as an attractive profession, and even protect the eco systems where cocoa is grown.
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Looking (for) fine

Fine Chocolate Industry Association, USDA partner for fine-flavor cacao research, preservation
Alyse Thompson
Alyse Thompson-Richards
July 24, 2012
It turns out pineapples, soybeans and cows are among chocolates biggest enemies, but a new project by the Fine Chocolate Industry Association (FCIA) is hoping to change that.
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