John Downs, president and ceo of the National Confectioners Association, recently spoke at the Fine Chocolate Industry Association’s Elevate Chocolate event in San Francisco, Calif., sharing information about the future of the chocolate category.
Chocolate maker is up from last year’s 36%, looking to produce 100% sustainable cocoa by 2025.
December 12, 2018
Barry Callebaut now produces 44 percent of its cocoa and 44 percent of its other ingredients sustainably. That’s according to the chocolate maker’s Forever Chocolate Progress Report for fiscal year 2017-2018.
Dutch confectionery company Tony’s Chocolonely, retailer Albert Heijn and chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut have partnered to work toward ending child labor and modern slavery in the chocolate industry.
The cocoa industry made big promises for sustainable cocoa that mostly come due in 2020, but now that the deadline is just a little more than a year away, many of those companies are shifting the timeline.
Cocoa suppliers and manufacturers made big promises for sustainability efforts that mostly come due in 2020 — but as the deadline gets closer many are now looking to 2025.
October 25, 2018
The 2018 Cocoa Barometer, a biennial review of the state of sustainability in the cocoa sector, is less than enthusiastic about where things stand in the sector.
Mars, Inc. and the Rainforest Alliance, in partnership with Touton and the Grameen Foundation, have launched in Ghana SAT4Farming, an initiative using digital technology and satellite imagery to guide farmers over a seven-year period.